CCR course - yes or no?

[PerroneFord]

So your instructor allows students to use the rebreathers for free during courses? Interesting concept, though not one we see here in the US very much from what I can tell.

I couldn't imagine showing up for OW or cave class and expecting to have all necessary gear provided to me for a week of training. Do you have to pay for consumables like Sorb and gas fills, or is that provided as well?

 

[Warren_L]

So your instructor allows students to use the rebreathers for free during courses? Interesting concept, though not one we see here in the US very much from what I can tell.

I couldn't imagine showing up for OW or cave class and expecting to have all necessary gear provided to me for a week of training. Do you have to pay for consumables like Sorb and gas fills, or is that provided as well?

I had already bought my unit for my training, but there was one fellow who was able to borrow a unit for free to do the course from the instructor. It was pre-arranged, of course, so the instructor knew in advance. All the other stuff like scrubber and batteries were purchased by the student. oxygen and diluent gases were included in the course.

 

[mania]

Sorbent was non discussed yet. Gas is a different thing. Some time ago my instructor did his own blending station. Now we are a group of around 30 people that own it. We pay monthly fee (20$) plus the wholesale price for gas. If you want to have your tanks fulled at our place and you are not a member of the club then you pay twice as much as we pay.
So anyway these are not serious costs.
Mania
PS. Are you coming over here for the course?

 

[PerroneFord]

LOL!

No, I have a very fine facility locally for rebreather training. But thanks for the offer. I hope to take some instruction on the Ourboros and the Optima this summer. See how they compare to the Meg.

I am very curious about this "all inclusive" training price that includes the use of a unit. Given the extreme expense of the rebreather, I could see how that might help bring in the curious student, but I don't know if instructors would be willing to allow a student to come in without their own unit, train them, and then have that student purchase a unit a year later or more and still issue them a card or certificate. If I were an instructor, I would certainly not be comfortable with that.

 

[mania]

well
first of all we are all friends. He trains only these he wants to (diving is not a source of his income). We anyway dive together in this group. So it's not that you are coming, do the course and then an instructor doesn't see you for few years.

Mania
PS. You are still welcome to come over here

 

[PerroneFord]

Ok,

I understand you better now. Thank you for the invitation to Poland, but I am afraid I would stick out like a sore thumb! Not that I don't already in cave country...

 

[mania]

Mania
But the question is still valid:
Should I stay or should I go????

 

[Jeff Toorish]

Mania
But the question is still valid:
Should I stay or should I go????

By all means, GO!

Give us a report when you are done.

Jeff

 

[PerroneFord]

I think you should take the course if you are able. You will learn a lot about rebreathers.

 

[Mr.X]

Mania
But the question is still valid:
Should I stay or should I go????

Take a course. It's a platform for learning. As for rebreathers...I have had access and owned a bunch. Like anything, you will trade up and advance your learning as you move up in experience.

My favorite rebreather to date: Cis, Mk, Lar (o2 rebreather) & Meg. Sentimental favorites - Insp. & Kiss. Worse experience on a RB - Insp. and Kiss - CO2 breakthrough below 200'. Ugggh.

X