Easiest rebreather to live with

[bluescuba]

Wol you forgot the following: Homebuilds, Apoc n Aurora maybe blue :chuckle:

 

[Wol]

How long would you take to prep your unit for a 90m alpine dive .
Prob much longer than a 30m dive with a large bail out can .

We spend hr s driving to boats hr s sat on boats . what s 30mins fooking about with a unit .

The time I spend prepping the unit tends to be the same deep or shallow for me. I keep the same paranoia that CO2 and PO 2 will kill me at either depth and my assembly routine is always the same.

On an optimistic day I would say I spend half an hour prepping the unit without rushing. However on a bad day it is much more. I am at the point where I am thinking of a new unit and one of my priorities is ease of use/ reliability etc.

One telling sign that all units are not equal from these measures is that I have spoken to several dive shop owners recently who have owned rebreathers and packed in using then due to either un-reliability or the hassle of assembly ie too much time to put together and too many dives blown out due their particular units. This is on top of my two pals who packed in diving for a similar reason after 20 odd years of doing 50 dives a year.

It's been 8 years since I bought my existing (second hand unit) hence I wanted to get a view of how things have moved on from this perspective from those who have used several units.

 

[sunnyboy]

I think your friends made the right decision. If the time spent prepping a rebreather is too much then exiting the sport is probably a wise move.

How much time do you want to spend on your unit?

I dive a Mk15, not the simplest on the planet. It takes about 30min to prep including gas then it's good for anything to 100m. And generally a couple of days diving. A twinset of nitrox, including fills, is going to take 2-4 hours for me.

My KISS was very easy to rig. It'd take a hell of a lot more than that to get me to buy another. A good unit but I wouldnt base my choice on speed of assembly.

My opinion, you've got your priorities wrong. There is no rebreather on the planet as good as the sales brochure, the time spent making sure my lump of stone age technology has the least likelihood of killing me seems like time well spent. As the old saying goes, slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

I still think this is a pointless question.

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Agree.