bamafan
Contributor
There is a very very small number of people who actually need a rebreather to make the dive safer. I mainly cave dive so that is how I look at things. There are very few people who are doing sub 300' dives with runtimes of 6+ hours. I am certainly not one of these and hate doing that much deco. If only people who "needed" a breather bought one the industry couldn't survive. I personally don't see much value in them for shallow diving if you carry the proper bailout. I see people skimping on bailout because they don't want to essentially drag as many tanks as it would take to do the dive on oc. This is especially true with the sidemount breather crowd and their single tank as dil / bailout. Dive what makes you happy.