Dir Ccr :)

lizardland

I don't know if I've ever been DIR but I've always dived Hogarthian and that is how I rig my rebreather setup. As Zak says, you don't need to think. Everything is in the same place. I dive with backplate& wing & single piece harness, I wear my stages on the left, I have a backup reg in a lanyard round my neck, long hose reg wrapped and clipped off, cannister on right strap, etc. Cylinders are a set of doubles and small O2 stage (plus whatever stages the dive requires). I've added another clip above the left shoulder d-ring for the top of the C/L, the bottom clips to waist d-ring. Scrubber goes on like a stage.

I dive within the limits of the backgas i.e. a pair of 7's becomes equivalent to at least a pair of 12's if I'm factoring sharing with an OC partner or at least 20's if not.

If I had been used to diving OC differently when I switched then things might have been different. But that's what I'm used to so it seemed daft to do anything else.

decoweenie

Do you really want an answer to that ?

lizardland

I think we all know the answer to that

JonnyB

Hey AnneMarie,
After seeing the pictures of your living room, i must admit i think i am falling in love... (hehe no offence i hope? )

Where did you get those weights for the hoses? I want to change the onoes that comes from Jetsam...

/Jonny

lizardland

Hi John,

just saw this as I missed the start of this thread. I was at Dorothea Quarry a couple of weekends ago. I tore a bag, surfaced, dumped my rig on the platform by the waters edge and started draining and disassembling to see how bad the flood had been. Opened up a handset housing to see if the electronics got wet (luckily it handn't). I had it all laid out neatly in the dry, went up to my car to get a wrench to open the head up. I came back down to find a bunch of f***ing DIR muppets had dumped a pile of wet crap (masks, fins, SMB's, etc) on top of it, soaking the electronics. I was spitting feathers.

Amazing how far a jetfin will go when kicked... the DIR folks are right, they don't float

Beanie

FFS that's not on
all divers should have respect for oneanother

back to the point I find the stages on the same time very lopsided even with on stage on my left I feel heavy on that side it's better on my right.

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Andy Del

Let's see, it was early this year in Sydney, and Andrew G was the perfect gent on the boat. There was 2 instructors, 2 or 4 students, doing some course or other (tech 2?), and me. AG was very friendly, we tried to talk about the fundamental theories and concepts behind diving CCR v. SCR (althought the bits after 'stick it ya gob and breathe' were lost on me ) for a few moments.

Nicest was the silence and calmness as I kitted up and went off for a dive. No briefing, or questions to distract me. Apparently they had a 25 minute briefing after I got in the water... something or other about the anti-christ.

Really, they were very nice and respectful...

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