Glenn Reynolds author of instapundit.com and the new book An Army of Davids, has a nice piece, on his rebreather checkout dives. that he did last month in Grand Cayman. As an experienced open circuit diver, Glenn documents his experience of diving a rebreather for the first time, like how to control your buoyancy on closed circuit, the new and different gauges he had to monitor and increased breathing resistance. His conclusion comes out sort of mixed, he noted the increased cost, evolving maturity of the units and differences between open/closed circuit but indicated the absence of bubbles and the longer dive times were real advantages to consider.
He wrote up the the article for Popular Mechanics and even included a video that shows the background on the unit and how it was setup to dive. Very nicely done, it's given me some ideas for travel logs.
Anyone else regularly dive a rebreather? Anyone else notice how garage-tech the KISS Sport rebreather looked?
1. As a non-rebreather diver (but jealous of rebreathers all the same), I have to get a laugh at the image in the story: "This Device is Capable of Killing You Without Warning!"
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog/outdoors/3583461.html?c=y&imageID=1443931&caption=
Posted at 1:30PM on Aug 17th 2006 by CharlieK