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...
By Jeffrey Bozanic, Ph.D. Images courtesy of the author unless noted. Unlike training to pilot aircraft, automobiles, or open circuit scuba gear, current rebreather training is...
Text and images by Michael Menduno unless noted. Lead image: The Halcyon booth at Boot 2024. Photo by Asutay Akbayir. The Buzz at Boot was Bainly...
There’s lots of buzz these days among sidemount rebreather aficionados: there’s a new sidemount mCCR in town, which has resulted in increased noise on the socials....
Launched in early 2020, just as the pandemic was getting started, Dive Rite’s innovative chest-mounted O2Ptima, aka the CHO2ptima, is generating significant buzz among instructors and...
Explorer Steve Lambert reports on the latest exploration push at Peacock 3, aka P3, in Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park, enabled by long range scooters,...
While today mixed gas rebreathers are a standard tool for tech divers, it’s easy to forget that this enabling, underwater life support technology has been more...
What rebreather has arguably logged the most exploration kilometers since its market introduction in 1998—an estimated 160 km plus (100 miles plus for you Imperialists)—and continues...
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) rebreather divers use the Absorbent Canister Endurance (ACE) method for estimating scrubber duration.
