Inspiration Trydive

Skeletor

Patience, tolerance, thick skin, and the ability to spend money that you do not have.

I think the most important thing is that you feel comfortable in the water and go into a course feeling confident about it. There's no mystery about Rebreather's and once you have got the bouyancy under control, I would say that they are actually easier than o/c. The skills sound far worse than they actually are (although I am saying this with the benefit of only having practiced them, not yet having to have done them when the shit hits the spinny thing).

I don't think thare is any minimum skill level as such, as long as you recognise your abilities and limitations. The worst thing you can do is overestimate your ability or become complacent.

Skelly

caveseeker7

When you do your trydive make sure to be around for the Per- and post dive.
It'll give you a better idea of what's involved with Rebreather diving.

EBT

Essential skills;

- An enquiring mind (always question the basis for things)
- A degree of humility (always being ready to accept you could be doing something wrong)
- A cautious approach
- Courage of your own convictions.
- A sense of humour (you'll need it when things go wrong)

Put simply, do things at your own pace and always be willing to accept that you can learn from many sources (not just CCR divers/Instructors). Dont always assume that super diver xyz is right.

You'll have a blast!

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Mary

Suprisingly all qualities that i need for my day job (well unless I'm on nights )

imdown

You'll be hooked after your dive!!!

Task loaded on desents and accents--flat out un-real experience at depth!
Keep your eye on ppo2 and have fun!!!!
Let us know how it goes.

DoubleTop

so we'll be getting a report of your try-dive sometime this week then Epic

DT.

Epic

You would have had a fully detailed report, but I've had to pull out of it.

Went diving on Sunday, got bloody cold on the boat coming back, had the start of a 'head cold' yesterday, feeling like shite today and the pool session is booked for tomorrow.

Bo**ocks - will have to wait until I can breath again without decongestants. If I went in the water right now my mask will get flooded quickly - with snot!

Then again, maybe this should be a new skill

-NEIL

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Mark Chase

Expect to feel like an alien. Nothing is where you expect it to be and you have similar buoyancy control issues as when you first donned a dry suit.

TIPS

Make sure your dry suit hose fits the unit your try diving or change the nipple on your suit to make it fit. (Its unlikely he will want to swap the hose on the unit but you could ask)

Practice breathing out through your nose to control buoyancy rather than through the regulator.

If you’re flying the wing, make sure your totally familiar with the operation of an auto air

If you’re flying the suit and your used to it you should be fine

If the unit has an ADV great. If it doesn’t locate your finger on the diluent button and keep it there during the decent and in-between checking your handsets. I would go as far as to say make the right hand hand set your master so you don’t have to take your finger off the dill button

If you have the option get a unit with large lungs as the placement of the buttons is better (IMHO)

If you have some soft weight pouches try to put 4kg on top of the scrubber. Use 3 kg in the top pouch or more if he wont let you put weights on top of the scrubber
If the unit as integrated weights use them as it keeps the thing on your back rather than floating above you.


OK here is the controversial bit that I will get told off for....

Once at depth (probably 6 -10m) if you feel a little neg squirt some air into the counter lungs. If you feel a little positive breath out through your nose. This is totally against minimum loop volume diving but that skill just comes with experience so don’t worry about it too much.

Avoid the desire to stick very close to the bottom. If your 1.5m up its ideal as you can use the bottom as a reference to see if your going up or down but you can also fin up if your a bit neg and fin down if your a bit positive. Once under control then resume the dive at 1.5m ish off the deck.

Neutral buoyancy on a CCR is a leap of faith. Its that point on the edge just before you lose balance and fall. When you get it spot on its almost magical but taking away the lung capacity option of fine-tuning your point in the water is like luring to write with the other hand. You understand the principle but you cant get the motor function right.

Have fun


ATB

Mark Chase

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Karl Thacker

Im in the same boat as your self, i am waiting to pick up my unit in Jan after waiting 5 months , I only have just over 100 dives my self mostly sea dives of some type. But i tried my mates unit out in the pool the other night and now i cant wait to get the thing on my back. Its going to be a lot of hard work but once we have mastered it im sure that i will never look back Have fun mate and enjoy it.

TordoffR

I am in the process of figuring out which rebreather I want to buy...and it looks like the Meg, but anyhow, I feel that you are probably entering Rebreather at the right time. I say this as I look at the more than $10,000 of tech gear stacked in my garage. Could have funded a good portion of new RB with just the money I spent on training to get mix certified. Now I get to do it all over again. I think you are hitting it at the right time!

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