Question GUE PSCR Today

[Tobias24]

Hello, I'm thinking about starting with a rebreather. Since I'm a GUE diver, I'm thinking about starting with a PSCR or a CCR. Does it make sense to dive a PSCR these days? Thanks for your opinion

 

[Rich1280]

Hi. I'm not sure many people are diving the PSCR as a primary rebreather these days, most people are on the JJ CCR. Certainly in the UK, and with most of the other projects I've seen around, the only people looking at PSCR are doing it for specific things like cave projects or as a BO rebreather. For sea diving and most things, the JJ is a better unit, and only requires T1 as an input level, where PSCR needs T2 or CCR2 as the pre-requisite.
I enjoyed my CCR1 and CCR2 training, there are a lot of good instructors around Europe so it should be easy to find a good course too.
Rich

 

[crofrog]

Hello, I'm thinking about starting with a rebreather. Since I'm a GUE diver, I'm thinking about starting with a PSCR or a CCR. Does it make sense to dive a PSCR these days? Thanks for your opinion

I am not a rebreather diver, but I think a lot of the answer lies in what are your motivations for moving to a rebreather?

 

[grantmac]

I'd wait to see how they integrate the new Halcyon unit.

 

[rjack321]

Hello, I'm thinking about starting with a rebreather. Since I'm a GUE diver, I'm thinking about starting with a PSCR or a CCR. Does it make sense to dive a PSCR these days? Thanks for your opinion

Are you diving wrecks, caves, or something else?

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

I know one person trained on RB80, just for fun, he is not diving it. I think if you want to dive CCR, evaluate why and what’s the best config for your conditions. Most likely PSCR is not your first rebreather these days (RB80 or Hollis… meh).

Your target could be sidemount CCR, stock backmount JJ or GUE JJ - especially if you dive in mixed teams.

 

[LFMarm]

I have not seen any SCR being dived so I don't think there are many around. A CCR can always be used as SCR if you want to or have electronics failure so I would go for CCR.

 

[PEDiver]

While there are still people training and diving the RB80, unless you have aspirations for deep cave diving or other specific exploration projects, I would say start with the GUE JJ CCR route and go from there. Or, talk with a GUE instructor that has experience with both and get their insight.

 

[Tobias24]

Are you diving wrecks, caves, or something else?

Yes shure, i realy like Wreck and Cave dives. But i dont want to spend so mutch money for Trimix.....
I have one test dive with the GUE-JJ. I think its to Heavy for me for a boat or a complex Cave dive. And i think the RB80 or a clone is cheaper than a JJ. But im new in the CCR and PSCR world.

 

[rjack321]

Yes shure, i realy like Wreck and Cave dives. But i dont want to spend so mutch money for Trimix.....
I have one test dive with the GUE-JJ. I think its to Heavy for me for a boat or a complex Cave dive. And i think the RB80 or a clone is cheaper than a JJ. But im new in the CCR and PSCR world.

PSCR and all the drive cylinders is heavier than the JJ....