Armed with reliable rebreathers, expedition-grade scooters, electric heating, helium mixes, high-powered dive computers, and those all-important P-valves, today’s cave explorers are giving our collective underwater envelope...
This month, we continue to explore innovative rebreathers on today’s market with a dive into KISS’s split-canister designed mCCR, the Sidewinder, launched in 2016. Designed to...
Rebreather technology has enabled cave explorers to extend their underwater envelope significantly deeper and longer. As a result, a few teams are pushing beyond the practical...
Since its introduction in 1973, the 11-liter Aluminum 80 cylinder has become nearly ubiquitous in the sport diving world, supplying both tourist divers and stage-carrying tekkies...
Launched in 2016, the FATHOM mechanical closed circuit rebreather (mCCR) has gained supporters among deep cave explorers and those distrustful of underwater electronics, who say they...
Forget those ‘leaky valves!’ The mechanical FATHOM CCR’s secret sauce is a specially-designed needle valve that enables divers to dial in their oxygen flow rate underwater...
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,...
British photographic phenom turned tekkie Jason Brown reviews Fourth Element’s new entry into the technical diving fin market—having long been dominated by Scubapro’s Jet Fin. Brown...
This month we continue our discussion of the migration to closed circuit rebreathers (CCR) and the future of open circuit (OC) scuba for tech diving. Instructor...
