Quote: (Originally Posted by
andrespp)
Hello all,
I am just starting diving CCR, in my case is the Classic Kiss. The tanks are 3 liters each, the air one filled up to 230 bars.
The question is as follows: bearing in mind that for a time I shall be using the unit on multilevel dives, not deeper than 30 meters, with no deco, do you think that carrying bailout is necessary?
My thinking (I maybe wrong, that´s why I am posting this question), is that having the unit the BOV, the bailout is not necessary on this kind of diving, specially if care is taken and avoid being deeper than 18 meters when the air SPG is below 100 bares.
By other side, Jetsam recommends always having bailout.
I'll appreciate your feedback on this matter, as well as you please let me know if you carry separate bailout on this kind of recretional diving.
TIA,
Andres
YES!
When you are learning, one of the first things you will practice is bailout to OC whenever anything goes wrong. At this point, depth is irrelevant (to a degree- don't go beyond your training levels, etc.)
Although staying permanently off the loop will, in many cases, most likely change as you advance in your skills/ cert. levels, you need muscle memory built up, & it doesn't make sense to build in the wrong muscle memory from the get-go.
There are CCR divers known as "Alpinists" who do not beleive in bailout bottles, but that is a lifestyle and a beleif system developed over time and accepted indivdually by the diver.
No agency that I am aware of, or any manufacturer for that matter, allows students to be taught without a baillout bottle.
No matter how deep I dive, I always carry at least 2 bailout bottles, & not small ones which I could probably get away with on shalow or short dives. That way, I am always able to practice my skills using the bottles I dive with the most, which are identical in size to those of my partners- for a number of reasons, including partner-type skills practice.