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Travel show in Copenhagen

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:00:22 +0000

In the weekend 24-25. of January there was a traveling show in Copenhagen, with a small diveshow part.

Unfortunately it was the same as in Düsseldorf, nothing new to see, but it was a good place to meet old students, old colleges, dive friends, and just to talk.

There was a big display of all sorts of different rebreathers from the very old to the brand new ones, like the Sentinel and the Poseidon Cis Lunar MK. VI.

I had the pleasure of seeing a presentation made by Mark Ellyat a famous deep diver, he had made some nice videos of his dive, to the Victoria, Yolanda and other wrecks. Also i saw the last 10 minutes of John Bantin’s presentation of lovely underwater pictures.

The pictures is a mixture of old friends, rebreathers and the presentations.

Pictures from Boot in Düsseldorf

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:00:15 +0000

As promised in an earlier posting, here are a few pictures from the Boot dive show in Düsseldorf.

There wasn’t really anything new to se, but I got a few nice shots of the Poseidon Cis Lunar MK. VI rebreather.

Poseidon Cis Lunar Mk. VI Rebreather

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:23:12 +0000

Poseidon has created a new Rebreather specially for the recreational market. This rebreather has been design together with some very experienced divers, like Bill Stone and Richard Pyle. The interesting thing about this rebreather is that, it is made specially for recreational diving, and not technical diving like other rebreathers.

The first version of the Cis Lunar Mk. VI will only allow you to dive to a max depth of 40 meter, and only on nitrox. So no playing around with trimix and stuff like that.

Another smart move, is you don’t have to spent time packing your scrubber, they come prepacked, this will of course be a little more expensive compared to doing it yourself, but i am a lazy person, so I love the idea.

I am looking forward to hear what people think about it once it has been released to the public in a month or two.

New world record for longest cave dive

admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:30:16 +0000

2 divers from GUE has set a new world record for longest cave dive.
During the 7 hour long dive, the dived 11,25 kilometre, while carrying 20 tanks with 7 different gas mixes. As a ‘bonus’ after the dive, they had to do 15 hours of decompression.

Other than being the longest cave dive yet, it is also the longest dive between 2 different entry points. The cave system they dived, is the 4th largest in the world.

National Geographic has also an article about this dive: here.

On the GUE website there is another here.

Is it time to get a Rebreather ?

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:39:30 +0000

According to this article (sorry in Danish): article we soon could run out of Helium.

Helium for trimix diving is already expensive as it is, but it does not seem to get any cheaper.

Therefore I am seriously considering getting a rebreather.
The model I want is the Sentinel Rebreather, but £5400 + extra for the course is quite a lot of money.

But I am ‘afraid’ i am doing it anyway