Why you dive on rebreather?

bubnotbub

Hi,
Departing from some preceding discussions ,
I would like to know what are principal motivations that have brought you to choose the rebreather and not OC.
For me more then versatility and the operational possibilities, my principal motivation is in the pleasure of the silence, the contact with the environment, listen my own respiraton, that something that I try to explain to the other scuba divers even if I know that only those people that have tried this feeling for a certain period can understand.
It becomes every occasion in which you are in water beautiful, also on one of that places that first you held void.
The depth, the costs, the interest in the development of the materials they surely come behind the pleasure of the silence.
And the pleasure doesn't have price

All the best

Aldo
I am certain that to express feelings in a foreign language is really difficult. I hope at least that the sense of the message is clear.
excuse my bad English (but I am studying)

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jhaaja

At first I reasoned it with cutting the helium costs and getting more flexibility to diving.

Now certainly the silence, ease of breathing are starting to count more. And I don`t have to live next to the compressor and storage banks

JH

JonnyB

Let me explain my reasons for changing with a example.

The Zenobia is my local wreck, and a pretty darn good one i may add. On the Zenobia we have huge groupers, around 1-1½ meter long. And the feeling of those comming up to you swimmin next to you during the dive and whn you hang on deco they join you and i am pretty sure they wonder what kind of a fish i am, in my case i bet they wonder what kind of whale, but that is another story.

I changes because of the silence and because of the fact that i am neutral all the time, no ascending or descending all the time, due to inhalation or exhalation. Then there are always other plus like having warm and moist air. But the main reason is as i said the silence, i can hear the natural sound of ocean in real and that is awsome.

/Jonny

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tecdivertraining

When working in the industry it can sometimes become same same as we say in Thailand. Rebreather diving is continually evolving and it’s something to keep me from drinking singer beer day after day. Of course I enjoy all the standard stuff silence, warmth, buoyancy, efficient gas usage etc.

It kind of an art form, needs constant practice, patience, skill and it continues to evolve if it were straightforward and easy like OC diving it would be boring.

Man needs a challenge rebreather diving provides just that.

I forgot to mention I am a mad gadget freak to.

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caveseeker7

I enjoy diving. I enjoy diving rebreather more.

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Chris

Cause they are cool and sexy and chicks dig em. And I wanted to be the first person on my dive boat with a CCR

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Chriso

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nigelh

Several of the divers I respected had changed to them and were reaping the benefits plus, I must confess, I was interested in the technology.

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lizardland

For me it was the mainly the cost of helium and also the wastefulness of OC. Also logistics for cave diving trips, even without a compressor I could have almost a week of diving and be fairly independant. It cuts down what I'm having to carry in the water too.

Like Nigel says, I found the technology quite interesting. I'm doing a Masters degree in diving science and rebreather design is part of it.

Finally, I always thought silent diving as a benefit was just a sales ploy. There is a site near me that I've been diving for the last ten years and never seen anything bigger than a cod. Every dive I've done there since getting my Rebreather I've been followed by seals for most of it.

Cheers,

Stuart

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TR300

Hi,

I do it because I like the silence. Next I like the kind of understand functionallity.

I don't really need a rebreather. Our lokal lakes are very shallow (< 15msw), dark and cold with nothing in it what needs to dive rebreather (you cant see just some fish and a lot of human rubish) The dives can also done very comfortable with a 80cuf bottle. (around one hour diving, before it should run cold).

Thats the environment in the middle germany

my rebreather friends and I (3 divers) are the lonely seen rebreather divers here in the area.

just my 2 cents

Holger

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johanvanlyl

aldo,
as i spend 90% of my dives in the North Sea, it is very rare that you have a dead calm sea, little or no current, acceptable visibility, no fishermen on the wreck site... so when all is right, i prefer to spend as much time as possible on the seafloor instead of being limited by deco obligations or gas supply...
And the more interesting wrecks lay deeper as the 'known' ones are being visited by the ever growing diving community

johan