Quote: (Originally Posted by
Janos)
Just a quick follow up on that as it's something I'm vaguely interested in too, but how long would a proper CCR Cave course take?
Five minutes from my instructor was sufficient for my first CCR OH solo penetration in Linley Caverns - 400 m in to 40 m depth.
The CDG is looking at reintroducing a CCR requirement to its syllabus after it was dropped from its training schedule in the 1960's (at least it was mentioned at the 2005 AGM).
Stuart Morrison is quite right about the pointlessness of limiting yourself to CCR for cave diving. To my mind there is little incremental step from being competant to dive caves on open circuit and dive a rebreather in open water to being able to combine the two. Unless you are doing some quite extreme cave diving then CCR's are not necessary or desirable (potentially very inconvenient) when you can quite safely do the whole dive on your open circuit bailout.