Lt CHEG
Contributor
Dude, you’re in Rensselaer County NY? You don’t think you’re close to a lot of tech diving?! You are *ONE hour* from the St. Lawrence River with numerous wrecks such as the Jodrey and the JBKing. You have deep wrecks off Kingston and Point Petre in Ontario. You would for certain get lots of use out of a rebreather.
I wish I was only an hour away friend. Depending on what part of the river I’m about 3.5 to 4 hours away from the Saint Lawrence. I actually used to travel to the Massena Port of Entry pretty routinely for work. I will admit that I haven’t really thought much about the St Lawrence though, and I will look into it some more for a closer dive destination for some good wrecks. Thanks for the website, I will definitely look into it some more.
I ultimately am left with the same problem though. It doesn’t appear that the depths are crazy enough to require a rebreather in and of itself. And I’m still far enough away that it’s not likely that I’d be able to dive there more than once a month in the summer time. I just don’t think the cost outlay for gas would be enough to make it such that I would rather dive CCR, a style that just wouldn’t be as relaxing as I would want, based upon economic factors. I just don’t know if I can get myself to want to have to concentrate so much on the mechanics of my life support system while diving. OC regulators really are pretty simple, and while I generally check my wrist computer about once a minute in OC and don’t mind doing that, I don’t really feel like I’m monitoring the actual life support equipment itself. From the sounds of it CCR equipment itself requires so much constant monitoring that I feel like my OCD tendencies would take a great deal of the fun of diving away from me when placed in an environment where safe and sensible diving requires so much monitoring of the actual life support equipment itself.