The Ponza Rebreather Meeting 2024 is an important event with international guests organized by the Ponza Diving Center and dedicated to all rebreather divers. one technical...
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...
The Rebreather Training Council (RTC) spent nearly four years developing a set of international ISO standards for rebreather training, similar to what was done for recreational...
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...
Good things come in threes. At least that’s what explorer and former commercial diver Axel Schoeller believed when he needed a specialized rebreather platform for a...
The view among many industry insiders, Pre-RF4, was that rebreather diving has gotten safer—an improvement from the estimate that CCR divers were 5-10x more likely to...
By Ashley Stewart and Michael Menduno. Images by Jason Brown, BARDOPhotograhic unless noted. Header image: Professor Timmy Gambin discussing their shipwreck documentation efforts. The latest Rebreather...
One of the deliverables of Rebreather Forum 4 was a set of “consensus statements” that reflected the views of participants on issues deemed important to the...
Once dubbed the “Johnny Appleseed of Rebreathers,” Peter Readey was a ubiquitous figure in the early pre-CCR days of technical diving. He would show up with...
