New Halcyon Rebreather?

[kammel78]

Not wanting that to derail this excellent thread; by travel-oriented, I mean looking at pretty fish without "team" diving and the traditional large and heavy kit. For example, using the very lightweight Halcyon Symbios on the barrier reef as it's nicer to dive CCR than OC.

Hope you're right about the price!

I'll add that a chesty, in general, works great for your use case, especially from a dive ops perspective. I've talked a number of OC-only blue water dive ops into letting me dive my chop with my family/friends since they don't have to do anything different for me...just give me an AL80 like everyone else. All I have to do if find a shop somewhere (sometimes it's the dive op) to refill my O2 bottle every other day.

 

[Wibble]

I'll add that a chesty, in general, works great for your use case, especially from a dive ops perspective. I've talked a number of OC-only blue water dive ops into letting me dive my chop with my family/friends since they don't have to do anything different for me...just give me an AL80 like everyone else. All I have to do if find a shop somewhere (sometimes it's the dive op) to refill my O2 bottle every other day.

Do you fly with your O2 bottle?

(My use case for a chestmount is that it's light for travel (of course there's the additional BP+W or sidemount+wing) and it's usable in overhead environments and wriggly ones to push through in front if necessary. This unit could well fit the bill.)

 

[kammel78]

Do you fly with your O2 bottle?

(My use case for a chestmount is that it's light for travel (of course there's the additional BP+W or sidemount+wing) and it's usable in overhead environments and wriggly ones to push through in front if necessary. This unit could well fit the bill.)

Yep. I take the valve off so they can see it's empty and put saran wrap over the open end.

I dive both OW and caves with it. OW is single tank bm, cave is sidemount. It's certainly not my favorite for caves, winder-style is my favorite from a profile perspective, but the chest mount was the only that covered both use cases for me. Feel free to pm me if you have any other questions or there're plenty of other threads on opinions of cm vs sm vs bm ccrs.