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...
As some tech divers have painfully discovered, there’s an escalating risk of decompression sickness (DCS) with Buhlmann algorithms as dives get progressively deeper and longer. The...
Increased helium prices and reduced availability resulting from recent global shortages have created hard choices and challenged pocket books for tech divers and instructors. There are...
Rebreather instructor trainer Dave Gration takes us for a dive into one of the newest breathers on the block, the Lungfish Orca V6, which attracted lots...
Conducting a deep dive with a chest or sidemount rebreather using "Dilout" ( a combination of off-board diluent and bailout) has become more common with the...
Polish cave diver and entrepreneur Marcin Stempniewicz, president of Submerged Foundation recounts his fascination with and journey into photogrammetry, and its application to dark, underground water-filled...
Underwater navigation seems like an obvious and useful extension of our dive computing capabilities. So why aren’t U/W NAV systems more prevalent? Former Shearwater director of...
PRESS RELEASE Salt Lake City, UT, September 25, 2023—Oceanic is thrilled to enhance your underwater adventures with the launch of Oceanic+ 2.0. This updated version of...
Mixed gas closed circuit and semi-closed circuit rebreathers have become essential tools for technical and scientific divers. But what about their pure oxygen counterparts? Diving contractor,...
Semi-closed rebreathers (SCR) were the first purpose-built breathers for sport divers circa 1995—Thank you Draeger! But while tekkies clearly needed mixed-gas units, many believed that recreational...
