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Mike,

Wetsuits are definately OC gear - My dive duration on my CCR is now limited
to the amount of pain I can endure wearing a wetsuit in 51 degree water.  So
far, I'm up to an hour and a half...

I've got Leon ready to go on my drysuit, just in time for us to start diving
in Fiji - great timing, eh?

As for recreational divers using Closed Circuit - I still don't agree that it
will become common practice.  Time will tell, but I just don't see it
happening.  How many relatively "experienced" recreational divers do you run
in to these days that still think that Nitrox is for "deep" diving?  I run
into them a lot.

Now try to get them to understand gas physics, breathing resistance, hypoxia
and hyperoxia, hypercapnia, and all the other things associated with
rebreathers.  I just don't see it happening...

There are always going to be Elmo's out there who shouldn't even be allowed
in a dive store, much less diving a rebreather, and THAT, I believe, is going
to be the real challenge of the rebreather industry, including the training
agencies.

But hell, I could be wrong.

Later,

Kevin.

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