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Travel by Boat of Car with Your CCR

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When using a car and boat, your dive destination may be a lot closer to home, but there are still a few special tips to consider. Bring extra bungee cords for boat travel. Many boats are specifically constructed for single tank divers. The benches may be awkward for a rebreather diver. Bring your own method of securing the rebreather to the bench or the floor. Consider the orientation of your rebreather scrubber. If your rebreather is lying on its back, vibrating on a moving boat or in a car for hours, will your particular canister design be subjected to drastic…

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Kevin Gurr May Save Your Life

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White Paper on Oxygen Sensors May Save Your Life This article, painstakingly written by Kevin Gurr and aggressively peer reviewed by colleagues, may be the most important thing you will read about your rebreather. Your oxygen cells are the key to your life support and yet many people abuse them and use them beyond their working life. Kev’s article spells out everything you need to know about cells and why we are all so adamant about proactively changing them out. Read this and read it again. The information may save your life. This is a very long article, but well…

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Rebreather Diving: Mixing Sensors

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Mixing Sensors is a Crap Shoot Your oxygen sensors are the heart of your CCR, offering critical information about your life support status. Attempting to save money by stretching your sensors beyond their service life may greatly increase your diving risks. Teledyne stopped supplying sensors to the diving market quite a while ago. If your rebreather contains any Teledyne sensors, they are beyond their expiration, whether they have just been installed recently or not. While you are checking your sensors, ensure that you have not mixed different brands within your rebreather. Your three sensors should be of the same brand. Each…

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