Rebreather (CCR) Training
Unlike cats & dogs, rebreathers can "play nicely together"
BubblesOptional can help guide you through the potentially dizzying array of units and options to help you find the unit, course and instructor that's right for you. Feel free to contact us if you're read you're ready to book your rebreather training.
Undecided? Learn about our Rebreather try out dive.
Closed Circuit Rebreathers (CCRs) have long been a valuable asset in the divers tool box offering:
- Less weight and greater maneuverability than open circuit equipment required for comparable dives
- SIGNIFICANTLY more gas due to their efficient re-use of exhaled gas
- Low cost of dive gas compared to open circuit, especially trimix
- Almost silent diving environment with no bubbles so perfect for research as well as film/video projects
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Greater personal comfort in water due to breathing warm, moist air
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Potential for significantly reduced decompression times as you are breathing “best mix” at every depth
Technology and demand is also helping the rebreather diver to ultimately reduce the cost of ownership and still retain the ability to use their CCR globally
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Increased performance and unit reliability
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Increased safety
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Increased number of vendors and instructors
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Global access to destinations and facilities supporting rebreathers
Support is immediately available on the manufacture units list below and other units through our network of industry leading professional instructors, agencies and manufacturers:
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Ambient Pressure Diving (Evolution and Inspiration)
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KISS, Poseidon, rEvo, Titan etc by arrangement
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What You'll Learn
With you instructor you will cover the following academic topics:
- Rebreather theory
- Unit specific performance
- Unit specific build and scrubber packing
- Physiology
- Self rescue techniques
In a confined water environment you will review:
- Buoyancy and fining techniques
- Equipment drills, including manually "flying" the unit and other unit specific functions
- Hypoxia, Hyperoxia and Hypercapnia drills
- Self and buddy rescue techniques
In the open water you will:
- Undertake minimum 6 dives / 500 minutes run-time
- Perform and master skills learned in pool
- Manually 'fly' unit
- Deploy DSMBs and drift ascents
- Perform self and buddy rescue techniques and ascents
- Resolve increasingly complex equipment drills to enhance unit knowledge and comfort
Course Pre-requisites / Course Summary
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Course |
Pre-requisites |
Components |
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age |
diver level |
# logged dives |
days |
class |
pool |
dives |
max depth (fsw) |
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CCR |
18 (17) |
Adv EAN or Adv Rec Trimix |
instr |
5-6 |
Y |
Y |
6 |
140 /160 |
Note:
- Different agencies have differing pre-requisits & standards. Those listed above reflect common sense minimums. Contact us for agency specific standards.
- Cross-over candidates can, at instructors deiscretion and subject to standards, apply credit based on previous diving experience.
- Appropriate equipment should be used.
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