Is CCR the right route for me?

[sea_ledford]

I got into my chop for ~60% of that.

It certainly can be done, especially if you live in the right part of the world, and have a bunch of stuff already. Live in North Florida, and already cave dive in sidemount? $5-8K is completely doable. Live in Iowa and only have single tank backmount? $15K

But even $8k is not really considered "minimal cost investment" for most of us.

 

[lostsheep]

I live in the CCR Mecca of NorCal .

Joking aside, CMs go onto existing gear (single tank BM included), I bought it at the intro price, and I trained locally. I don’t understand what cave diving has to do with it.

Why would anyone except James Kirk live in Iowa?