Which CCR's are more travel friendly than others?

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Phate

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Hi all,

I'm not CCR diving (yet) as you all know. But being someone who A) likes to travel and B) likes to dive and C) likes to combine A & B it got me thinking about which CCR's are friendly to travel with and which ones are not?

I know of the Pelagian and it being lightweight and travel friendly. I was wondering about others? I've seen Mr Chase's post about the JJ fitting in an overhead bag (for example)

TIA!
 
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I have traveled with several different units in anything from plastic crates to pelican boxes to carry on. You can travel with any of them but I find the ones that are an open architecture such as HH Defender X CCR and other similar styles is a lot easier than rebreathers with a box or case. With the open architecture when you remove the tanks it is smaller. With a case that holds tanks inside it is always the same size.


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The HH / Defender / XCCR with a delrin HOBO canister is my first choice for travel.

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I take my Hollis Prism2 everywhere. I put the main unit in a backpack I put on the flight with me with the CL's and wing going under the plane.

Never had a problem, except in Mexico City, where they didn't know what it was and forced me to check it in as extra baggage.

Chris
 
Phate said:
Hi all,

I'm not CCR diving (yet) as you all know. But being someone who A) likes to travel and B) likes to dive and C) likes to combine A & B it got me thinking about which CCR's are friendly to travel with and which ones are not?

I know of the Pelagian and it being lightweight and travel friendly. I was wondering about others? I've seen Mr Chase's post about the JJ fitting in an overhead bag (for example)

TIA!
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I've had no trouble travelling with my Evolution but the yellow box part is the biggest pain due to the bulk. Weight is fine though, so I tend to load everything into the crate and be done with it. Being able to break it down would help for sure, so N@90's travel frame or similar light-weight boxes would be the way to go on such a unit.
 
Standard Meg.
Tanks, wing, and backplate are divvied up in checked luggage as weight requires.
Everything else that makes up the rebreather (Cannister, Head, CLs, Regs, Loop) fits easily into a rolling carry-on bag.
 
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Here is my full size HammerHead in a carryon. The X-CCR is slightly shorter for the full size and if you get the shorter can it is even easier.


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I have yet to fly with my rebreather(s). But know several people who have with their revo micros. Put them right in the overhead.

Al
 
Except the Pelagian DCCCR being lite and friendly it is also flexible. You can dive it with any size cylinders and not be forced in to using small 2-3 liter tanks.
 
Travel freindly CCR

1: All esential bits needed to dive it that cant be hired on site, must all fit in an overhead locker bag

2: Light weight

3: Must offer redundancy if primary PP02 control or display fails

4: Field repair must be possable

5: Must be able to work with what tanks are available

6: Should be light enough to enable wet suit diveing

7: Spares should preferably be readily available (tough one this as most sites have Inspo which is one of the least travel freindly units out there)

8: Idealy can calibrate in 02 thats lower than 100%

At a glance:

rEvo Micro
JJ
Some of the Megs
KISS


SUre theres others i am just not that familure with them
 
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