Quote: (Originally Posted by
Decodiver)

Jean Mi,
No problem je te souhaite bonne chance sans rancune!
I wish you the best of luck!
Cheers,
Dave Cooper.
Salut Dave,
I would like to add that training is more then necessary for those who want to get in ccr world,
It is a cheap safe way to dive ccr.
It took me years of hard work, a big amount of money, re built my dolphin
I did not follow this track only because 8 years ago in the south of france the instuctors that were able to teach had just obtained their certification for 6 month or so, and had no experience.
For me a good CCR instructor is a guy that has done several hundreds of ccr dives, not a newbie
at that time I sould have gone in the UK to get a descent CCR course but I did not have enough money to do so, so my only available solution was to get an insp course with unexperienced instructors in france and i refused that.
As i did not whant to dive an inspiration at all cost, I had no choise but doing it myself....with the help of dale bletso and kerry mc kenzie that had spend hours telling me what to do and not to do...
also the choice of a dolphin was not a money choise , I just wanted to protect the dive center that i dived in from any law problem , as a matter of fact a small kiss valve does not change the general shape of the dolphin and a dive center manager is not supposed to open every rebreather , other wise of course I would have bought a classic kiss to plus and play.
You live in France and then you know that our country is a fantastic place to live except the fact law is in certain fields written by administration (as t is for diving) not by the parliament, so the diving law has been written by people that don't know mutch about sport rebreathers and were advised by professionnals...
We lack liberty in France... it is a shame for the country of human right !!!
this situation was terrible for me who wanted to dive kiss and not ECCR for personnal reasons.
It means that I can't chose my rebreather !!!!
If I was not in love With my Country I would have flown away for years.... The English still have a monarcky but we still have the LOUIS XIV administration !!!!!
So you are completely right to teach KISS down here .
Re-building a machine and doing self education is long expensive and dangerouse, getting a good kiss training and purchassing a kiss to gordon's wife is far better .
regards
jean mi