Quote: (Originally Posted by
systematic.entropy)
Thanks for the input. All that being said, some people have told me a few bad things about the Sport KISS. Kind of along the lines of it's a waste of money. Unfortunatly, there aren't too many rebreather clinics that come around here, so I have yet to be able to try one out myself. Agh! decisions, decisions. I'll just bite the bullet and go with the Ouroboros right off the bat. Sound good?
I had a dolphin for a couple of years. Did a KISS conversion on it after a few months. I then bought a sport kiss because I needed a cert card, for when I am traveling more than any other reason but the SK was not right for me so I bit the bullet and bought a meg. A year and a half later I have no regrets.
The dolphin was good to me, the conversion process taught me a lot but don't do it for economical reasons. You might benefit from the experience of setting up, cleaning, maintaining a rebreather from the dolphin but from a diving perspective the advantage over OC is minimal. If you go with the conversion route don't forget to check out
Ron Micjan's web page for it's wealth of CCR conversion info including step by step instructions.