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Mohamed Mousa)
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I have some questions and i need some guidence.
1. Having been diving for the past 7 years and technical diving exclusively for the past two years, with an average of 100+ dives a year, would this contribute to the time it takes a person the get the idea of rebreather diving?
OC experience is definitely relevant, but there's much to re-learn. The amount of time is person specific.
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...When do you decide you are ready for caving on a ccr(regardless of requirements)?
When you have mastered stationary bouyancy and trim. For me, what has taken the longest to learn, and still learning.
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3. Having no problem what so ever during my oc training, and constantly peacefully pushing my comfort zone deeper in diving later. There is just a time that comes, where you feel you now understand what going on with your gear dive planning. How long would it take to feel that a person has a firm grip on operating the unit?
Again person specific. Prep and gearing up is more involved than in OC, and you will find all your previous muscle memory wrt to buoyancy control will be non-relevant. To me, this is what may take time. Once you feel you can maintain staionary boyancy, controlled ascent, do the drills in shallow water without surfacing (or dropping), then you're a long ways there.
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Would you have any advice whatsoever especially that i'm doing multiple courses in a small time interval.
Regards and i'm sure your opinions will contribute to my plans and expectations
Mousa
Be patient and tolerant. Don't go too far too fast, nor expect too much from yourself. You may get disappointed...at first. Don't be surprised if at first you can't control boyancy, breaths bad, and generally uncomfortable. Give it time.
I assure you, it becomes heavenly.
You are about to turbo boost your diving interest. Best of luck.