Tech 1 Turbie!

[wilbo]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

That way inclined? He's been quietly and unassumingly DIR since doing Cave 1 with JJ in 2000.

Like I said - didn't know..

tbh - and I don't know why - but I thought he was into rebreathers..

Who else is/was on his course?

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by wilbo

Like I said - didn't know..

tbh - and I don't know why - but I thought he was into rebreathers..

Who else is/was on his course?

He is/was. He's got a KISS and passed MOD 2, but hasn't used it for over year. It's been sitting in the corner of the kitchen - don't know why he doesn't flog the bloody dangerous thing.

There was one other guy on the course (not on YD).

[Fiona]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

He is/was. He's got a KISS and passed MOD 2, but hasn't used it for over year. It's been sitting in the corner of the kitchen

Yeh bloody dangerous thing you could fall over it, who keeps a breather in the kitchen

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by Fiona

Yeh bloody dangerous thing you could fall over it, who keeps a breather in the kitchen

Exactly! It's tucked away in the corner but it's still a couple of grand sat there doing sod all.

[wilbo]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

He is/was. He's got a KISS and passed MOD 2, but hasn't used it for over year. It's been sitting in the corner of the kitchen - don't know why he doesn't flog the bloody dangerous thing.

There was one other guy on the course (not on YD).

ah.. see thats why.. and to be honest people 'normally' don't do both.

Originally Posted by Kirstie

Exactly! It's tucked away in the corner but it's still a couple of grand sat there doing sod all.

Oops.. I can see a conversation happening..

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by wilbo

ah.. see thats why.. and to be honest people 'normally' don't do both.



Oops.. I can see a conversation happening..

He was a bit conflicted ref the rebreather. He's been doing deeper dives this year with Brian Allen, and obviously wasn't able to use the KISS for those, so has gradually gone back to OC for lack of a rebreather buddy (and lack of practice) more than anything.

And it's not so much a conversation as a long-standing animated discussion

[Paul Evans]

Congrats on the Tech 1

[Moz]

Congrats in order

[Finless]

Originally Posted by Kirstie

He was a bit conflicted ref the rebreather. He's been doing deeper dives this year with Brian Allen, and obviously wasn't able to use the KISS for those, so has gradually gone back to OC for lack of a rebreather buddy (and lack of practice) more than anything.

And it's not so much a conversation as a long-standing animated discussion

Obviously? Why obviosly? Surely a RB comes into it's own on a deep dive? What with recycling He and O2 and ................................

Bloody dangerous? A KISS? A Keep It Simple Stupid? I thought they were supposed to be the safest you can get on a CCR in terms of failure points etc?

Are you jealous because you haven't got one?

Congrats to Paul on officially coming out and passing.

[Kirstie]

Originally Posted by Finless

Obviously? Why obviosly? Surely a RB comes into it's own on a deep dive? What with recycling He and O2 and ................................

Bloody dangerous? A KISS? A Keep It Simple Stupid? I thought they were supposed to be the safest you can get on a CCR in terms of failure points etc?

Are you jealous because you haven't got one?

Because Brian's a GUE instructor and can't dive with Paul if he's using a RB.

Paul bought the KISS as he thought he'd be doing deeper dives, but his life changed shortly afterwards ( ), he moved down here and started full-time work as a PADI instructor. Deep diving went out the window last year, and he's only just getting back into it again, but it won't be with the RB.

I think the KISS is possibly the 'safest' of the CCRs, but it's still waaaay too risky for me. I'm not jealous, 'cos I could use the bloody lump of plastic that's currently gathering dust in my kitchen, were I foolish enough