When I was diving OC I never put gauges on my deco bottles (unless they were also being used for penetration) for the reasons listed by others -- mainly, what good is it doing you? I guess I've just continued that through to CC. I have a gauge on my dil side but if I was diving only in open water then like Jason I probably wouldn't bother. I find it quite useful for cave diving as a "go home time" indicator -- I turn either at a pre-determined time (or distance) or 1/3's of dil if I hit that sooner. 1/3's of O2 is irrelevant to me, 1/3 of a full O2 bottle exceeds my scrubber's rated life. If I reach 1/3's of O2 on a dive where everything is going OK then I have bigger problems than gas supply, my low boredom threshold being one of them.
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Who taught your guys' CCR classes?
Kevin Gurr, circa 1995. 3hrs of lectures, 15min on a Cis-Lunar in a pool, hand over £100, IANTD Rebreather Diver cert came through the post 3 weeks later. Glad I'm not doing it now, all those drills, classroom work, reading, lectures, diving... I couldn't be bothered with all that
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