Depth Experiences Rebreather 80

Robin Sporrer

Hi Folks,

Which expericiences have you with depths > 120-m (> 360 ft) using an Rebreather 80. Where is your personel maximum´on depth and why. Could anyone write his/her personel experience.

I'm interested on the follwing points:

Scrubertime on depth, experiences
breathwork, gasdensity
used counterlung ratio, effective Ratio

I'm prefered interested in experiences using pSCR esp. Rebreather 80

Thanks

gtzavelas

Hi, just did my deepest dive last week with my RECY 01 pSCR: 126 meters in a cave.
My unit has a 1:7 ratio practically that is 1:5
I spent very little time at depth – less than 15 below 100m
Breath work and WOB was no problem at all at 126m with a mix of 11/80
In general the unit performed very- very well , the temp off the water was 10-11 deg C (and 700m altitude), total dive time 3 hours + 10 minutes.
I used a bit more than half of the capacity of scrubber (I put in around 3kg out of 5 kg max)

I know that the RECY has been much- much deeper (180m). (the 1:14 ratio unit)


Hope this helps
george