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...
With Europe emerging as the global center for tech rebreather diving, it is becoming increasingly important for non-European rebreather manufacturers to get their CE mark—at least,...
As hundreds of rebreather professionals prepare to head to Malta for the three-day industry and scientific symposium, Rebreather Forum 4, we thought it timely to offer...
In two weeks time, many of the leaders of the global civilian and military rebreather diving communities will gather to assess the state of our rebreather...
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