@ScoobaChef: Ahh I see. Well yeah if you are GUE trained then you OBVIOUSLY know a thing or two about diving
. I'll probably do my full cave course next year. Yeah weighting can be tricky. I forgot to upgrade to a steel back plate with my rebreather so I'll have to see how that works out and how much weight I will need. Doubles... haha. Before I do mixed gas CCR, I am going to do my trimix on air. I'll probably start that next month. But like Superlyte said, not having to worry about gas volume is such a freedom in CCR!
@Tammy: Sorry to hear about your incident. I had a rapid ascent from 60 feet in my drysuit last year. My inflator valve got stuck from a sternum strap in my sidemount harness and I got stuck inverted. I feel ya man, having no control is scary. Thank God we are both okay to this day and are even safer divers because of it!
Nice man! Like I said to ScoobaChef, I want to do my cave course eventually, hopefully next year. Just while we are on the subject of caves, I want to share a story with you. My instructor for the P2 was Jeff Bozanic- Rolex Diver of the Year, has dove caves in 28 countries, mapped most of the Cozumel caves, and previous chairman of NSS CDS. I was talking to him one night about cave diving and rebreathers. He told me when he started rebreathers he had 150 hours on his unit before going back into caves. He did 1 cave and said "im not ready," aborted the dive. He did another 75 hours before he went back into caves. Im sure you are a very capable diver, heck you have twice as much dives as me! But it was really humbling for me to hear that even a hall of fame inductee had to log that many hours before cave diving CCR again. On that note, I just read this article on Advanced Diver Magazine. You might like it! Dual CCR!!!
The PIT • ADVANCED DIVER MAGAZINE • by Krzysztof Starnawski
Glad to hear you are enjoying your Prism2, I can't wait to dive mine next!
