PaulTG2

Hello,

Any of the diving rebreathers available at retail will probably work well for all around diving. You can probably get training, where you want, on any that have been on the market for a reasonable amount of time. Training and maintaining proficiency will be the most important aspect of how safe you will be diving a rebreather. They can all keep you alive and they can all cause you to kill yourself.

While different rebreathers might have slightly better features for one type of diving over another, but most can be configured for most typical types of technical diving. If you are doing extreme diving (extremely cold, deep, long, gue expidition, etc) then the selection process becomes a bit more critical.

Although the passionate debates on Rebreather World might suggest otherwise, it seems to me that the issues in the main differences between rebreathers come down to simple personal preferences.

About the only consistent thing I see is that people who start diving SCR convert or move to CCR at a fairly predictable rate.

Read about the various issues of safety, failure, WOB, configuration, etc and decide what you believe/want and then find a rebreather with that configuration. Alternatively, find what the people you plan on diving with and dive the same rebreather so you can learn from their knowledge and expertise.

-p