Based in Maui, Hawaii, Avelo has developed a tank-based hydraulic system, similar to those used on submarines, enabling a diver...
by Yvonne Press Algorithms, gradient factors, bottom times, hydration, sleep, gas choice—they all factor into decompression dive planning. Every time we teach budding tech divers how...
Explorer, educator and dive business maker Patrick Widman presents the inside story of the much anticipated KISS SIDEWINDER 2, and its evolution from the original KISS...
Making a list. Checking it twice. Gonna find which breathers are naughty or nice. Psst, new offerings inside!
Halcyon Manufacturing is close to rolling out its innovative new chest mount closed circuit rebreather (CCR), which will be on display at the annual DEMA diving...
Scuba Force founder and president Horst Dederichs explains his motivation and approach in designing the SF2 rebreather, and highlights the rebreather’s key features.
Instructors Jens O. Meissner and Helmut Spangler discuss diving operations with the SF2 and how it performs in the hands of new inexperienced rebreathers and those...
by Paul Haynes. Lead image: RB80 diver by Sean Romanowski While there has been considerable recent interest in frontmounted and sidemount rebreathers, backmounted counter lungs (BMC)...
Continuing with our review of tech rebreathers, we take a deep dive into the Scuba Force’s SF2 eCCR, launched in 2012. Scuba Force founder and president...
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) standardized its training and dive operations on a specially configured, backmount JJ-CCR rebreather more than a decade ago. Though the configuration is...
