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Setting up a CCR plan

Choose the breathing mode when the plan is created, then add the diluent and bailout gases the closed-circuit planner needs before it will run.

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Breathing mode is a property of the plan, set when the plan is created. In the New dive plan dialog, the Breathing Mode control offers Open Circuit and Rebreather (CCR). Choosing Rebreather (CCR) puts the whole plan on the closed-circuit path; there is no per-dive toggle further in.

The breathing-mode choice, on a new plan

What changes in CCR mode

  • The Plan step’s section rail gains a CCR entry, between Environment and ICD Safety, holding Setpoint Settings, Bailout SAC Rates and Scrubber.
  • The gas wizard offers four closed-circuit roles in place of bottom, travel and deco gas: Onboard Diluent, Offboard Diluent, Bailout and Diluent + Bailout. See Diluents.
  • Every step of the dive is planned on the loop mix implied by the active setpoint rather than on a cylinder gas. Gradient factors, algorithm, stop increment and ascent rates are unchanged; see Decompression settings.
  • If air breaks are enabled, a Break Setpoint field appears. Set it and the planner holds the loop there for the break instead of switching to the break gas.
  • The Review step gains a Bailout control above the profile chart in the Overview, Schedule, Gas and Tissues views. See Bailout scenarios.

The smallest plan that runs

Two gases, in two roles.

  • One Onboard Diluent, mandatory. Without it the planner refuses to run and reports CCR mode requires an Onboard Diluent gas to be configured.
  • At least one open-circuit-capable gas, in the Bailout or Diluent + Bailout role. The loop schedule computes without one; bailout planning does not, and returns Add an OC bailout or diluent bailout gas to plan bailout scenarios. in place of the scenario picker.

The dive the rest of this section uses is 55 m for 30 minutes on a 21/35 diluent, with 21/35 as diluent bailout and 50 % as an open-circuit bailout gas, setpoints 0.7 on descent and 1.3 from 30 m.

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  • Setpoints covers the three you always have and the ones you add.
  • Diluents deals with onboard, offboard and diluent bailout.
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