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rdmmdr)
Shallow water rebreather diving, while in most cases is overkill, allows us to stay current on our skills.
Yes of course shallow water diving is useful to keep skills current for when we
need to use the rebreather (deeper/overhead etc) BUT the problem is there are a shed load of people who ONLY ever do shallow water non overhead diving with their units and have no intention (or very very rarely do dives where a Eccr is even needed or where its risks outweigh the benefit. So the argument is not valid.
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And i like the added safety factor while diving in the kelp. Too many oc guys have died from entanglement issues. So to say that we should not be diving them unless we have to just does not fly.
You are arguing my case for me. If Kelp entanglement is a risk factor then Id call that an overhead dive and Id call that a dive where a rebreather clearly adds safety.