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More info coming soon

Diving Rebreathers is being hailed as the future of Scuba Diving, The question is, why are Rebreathers becoming so popular? What are the benefits of using CR on a dive? How do they work and what do they do?

CCR stands for Closed Circuit Rebreather and essentially means that when you exhale, your bubbles are not released into the water as with normal scuba equipment. Instead, the gas you exhale is recycled back through a scrubber unit, containing grains of Sofnolime (I won’t go into the chemistry but there’s a chemical reaction), which ‘scrubs out’ the Carbon dioxide that you exhale, meaning that you can breathe it again… or re-breathe it!! …Read more

Prior to Diving

The big difference here is in the pre -dive checks that an Inspiration user MUST do. On your open circuit set, you’ll probably get away with just turning the gas on and going diving. This is not true on a rebreather. Each user will have a set sequence of tests they MUST do before entering the water, even if its only 5 mins since they come out (even more so in that case). Don’t worry they wont take long and are carried out in addition to the normal buddy checks which still need to be done. One of the myths of rebreathers is that they take ages to set up. This is not true

Positive Inflation Test. 

The units buoyancy compensator and breathing loop are filled to maximum pressure, sealed and left for a time. They must not deflate. This tests for air leaks. This test is often done well before kit up time. The lung dump valve is tested at this time also (Min 3 mins) …Read more