Yellow Box Of Delights - Rebreather Training

After years of lustfully looking at the lovely yellow boxes Steven Beckett and I have finally taken the plunge and got rebreathers.

As well as saving up the pennies and the long delivery times the training is the big issue.
The units have massive benefits, much longer duration , no bubble’s much greater no decompression times but the down side of this is that the control systems are more complicated so training is much more detailed.

For training we traveled to Gibraltar for training with Steve Gould. The entire bay is littered with wreck in all depths, just minutes from the harbor by boat.
The training started off in the historic Rosia Bay, where the Victory first brought Admiral Nelson’s Body after the Battle of Trafalgar.
The site was great, shame I can’t say the same about our skills. The first dive was like being a novice again, which we are again now. Spent all the time trying to get used to buoyancy, as the breathing loop is closed you can’t use your lungs to control buoyancy.

There was also lots to learn about the gear with dis-assembly and re-assembly every day to change tanks, fill Sofnolime.

However under the superb instruction of Mr. Gould it started to come together and got the hang. Now the diving starts for real :-)