don most people on here giving advice don't have a tenth experience you do , some talking about ccr never dove one outside of try dives ....so your wasting your time explaining it ...
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The Revo can actually be dewatered. It is just that most people have never taken the time to figure out the method and practiced it to make it a viable tool. It may not be pretty or easy, but it definitely is doable. Any unit with an OPV can be dewatered if you get the OPV to the lowest possible point and do a dil purge. As far as I know, no one instructs this or advocates that it be done though. I tend to be that idiot who has to try things and create answers to my problems.
Well the sidewinder is about the worst there is for dewatering
Yeah, one of the reasons I'm not too keen on it. I get it, I understand the appeal, but seeing first time rebreather divers on one gives me the willies. Part of me feels like there should be some barrier for entry, like only crossover certs are available, you've gotta have MOD1 on something else at least, but the other part of me hates that nanny stuff. But that's a whole other topic where the unit is only the gatekeeper to unqualified people doing stupid stuff because now they can.
I had heard Mike was working on an OPV but I never bothered to follow along to see if it came to fruition. I'm not super clear on what the issue was because I just wasn't really interested at that point.