Question CCR for recreational depths

[berndo]

Here you see it (on a twin tank, of course - at the time no one here was using a single tank with a single reg):

That one, I've never seen. I've only seen the ones that had a little lever on a single tank valve. I never used one but I've seen people dive them in the 90s still.

 

[Wibble]

(well and wibble but he thinks dry glove are a new invention).

Kubis?
Santi Rings?

Go and play with your Wright Flyer...

 

[rx7diver]

The Technisub spring-loaded reserve did not suffer of any of tvese problem. The tank can be filled even with the valve "up", and if you pull the rod by error before the pressure is below the preset "reserve" value (usually 50 or 70 bars), it will come up again by itself, thanks to the spring.
That valve is way safer than an SPG...
It was the most common one here when I started diving.
I never understood why it was not a worldwide success.

You wrote about these not long ago, and showed a picture. I absolutely want a couple!!

rx7diver

 

[berndo]

Kubis?
Santi Rings?

Go and play with your Wright Flyer...

There were plenty of dry gloves with rings even in the 90s and probably before that. Twist on, click on, shove on, same stuff.
Santi just copied DUI suits for cheap, undercut DUI's price by a lot and made some design changes which they sold you as major innovations.

 

[Wibble]

There were plenty of dry gloves with rings even in the 90s and probably before that. Twist on, click on, shove on, same stuff.
Santi just copied DUI suits for cheap, undercut DUI's price by a lot and made some design changes which they sold you as major innovations.

Like talking to a climate cultist. Never listens, only spouts.

 

[berndo]

Like talking to a climate cultist.

Hahahaha, what, you still have those? How come this wasn't fixed by your boy Boris and his little crew after he delivered brexit?

 

[kimh]

kimh: "…and provide complete, conversational guidance. Sort of like Iron Man w/Jarvis."

When you've lost an argument, divert to the throwaway line. Well done!

 

[TuckerIdaho]

Girls, you're both pretty.

 

[CT-Rich]

Think about it: an independent, non-professional, civilian diver doing 330'/100m+ rebreather dives on trimix, to do photographic surveys of a wreck that he and his friends discovered themselves. As a hobby. We have people like that on Scubaboard.

Now, get in your time machine & go back to 1985 – describe that scenario to a 1985 rec diver. They'll probably start babbling about "flying pigs."

This may be unpopular, but unless you are being paid to use a rebreather as part of your work, you are a recreational diver. the term "technical" versus "Recreational" is semantics. the terms denote different styles of diving and training, but are both basically hobbyists.

Considering how much rebreather diving has replaced OC on the deeper mixed gas dives, the question is, how much more of the market is going to convert to CCR or SCR. OC will probably continue to be the gateway in diving, but a certain percentage of people that are interested in staying with in recreational limits may also be interested in rebreathers. I am not a technical diver. I Have never been past ~120'. I have plenty of in water time and would be interested to look at this as an option for reasons other than depth. I think there are others like me that would be interested in being able to dive without the limitations of OC if the equipmetn was safe and affordable.

Sometimes on SB and other sites, there is a group mind set about the progression of divers from OW ==> Technical diving and that is the true path. If I had was younger and started diving later, maybe I would be on that path, but I'm not and I don't think that would necessarily exclude me from having the discipline and competency to learn rebreather.

 

[kimh]

This may be unpopular, but unless you are being paid to use a rebreather as part of your work, you are a recreational diver. the term "technical" versus "Recreational" is semantics. the terms denote different styles of diving and training, but are both basically hobbyists.

As I see it, among the "recreational divers/hobbyists" would be "Joe," who finished OW last week, and is debating whether to spit in his mask before diving Molasses Reef in FL.

And then there's "Bill," who's doing trimix gas planning for a rebreather dive — photogrammetry on a wreck at 110m, using a DPV to keep exertion/WOB reasonable.

Neither is getting paid; both can be called "hobbyists" — but these are different dives, and different kinds of divers.

I'm not sure exactly how it plays out with vocabulary, but we're talking about a non-trivial distinction here.