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    Peter Readey’s incredible Steam Machine Prism to Hollis P2 began working with aerospace company Paragon Space Development Corp now working as part of

    Hi Chet, thanks for posting this comprehensive article on Peter, it has lots of detailed info I didn't know. Very glad to hear he's still challenging himself and working on important things. -Andy
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    Great Lakes CCR

    If you mostly dive in cold water, the scrubber’s cold water performance/efficiency is important, both in terms of duration and by extension potential for CO2 breakthrough in the later stages of scrubber duration under higher workloads. Look carefully at the manufacturer’s scrubber durations at...
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    Extra Days In Honiara

    Do some local dives or take the day trip across to Tulagi. Tulagi is quiet and beautiful place to check out all your gear dialed in, mostly shallow wreck diving but very calm conditions.
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    Diving in PNG

    I would contact the local dive operators and see if they can do a private itinerary tailored to your time in port. I have dived in or near all three of those places and they are fantastic. I wouldn’t miss those places unless the cost of hiring a boat and guide is outrageous…
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    RebreatherWorld, again. Any way to access old threads?

    Interesting, nice to se you on here Stefan!
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    RebreatherWorld, again. Any way to access old threads?

    Has there been any recent response from whoever owns the site?
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    Trip Report Diving New Britain PNG video

    Silvertips are far less common and more impressive animals, it was great there were so many. They are very graceful, powerful swimmers…
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    Trip Report Diving New Britain PNG video

    Thanks for the very nice video, glad you had good visibility. I have dived on that Zero as well, on a trip with Golden Dawn. Those sharks are silvertips not whitetip reef sharks. Whitetips don’t have the silver/white color on their pectoral fins, are much smaller, less aggressive and more...
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    Trip Report Lissenung Island Resort, Kavieng PNG

    Excellent trip report, thank you very much for posting it. As a person who has been to PNG 4 times and hopes to go again in the future, I was very pleased to hear Lissenung survived CV19 and that the diving in New Ireland and New Hanover is still great. I dived there on a liveaboard in 2006 and...
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    Who has had to bailout?

    I contributed to the poll, but do not believe everyone will be honest about what their reasons were for having to bail out. In my case, I had to BO twice because of stupid mistakes after jumping, meaning I left the mouthpiece open. One time happened soon after SCR training, pure inexperience...
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    What flight case for the Prism 2

    Hello Mike, I’ve travelled all over the world with my Prism 1, always with the the head/electronics in my carry-on. No chance of damage when something is always in your control. CLs, hoses and scrubber bucket are tough enough for checked bags. Also, O2 sensors should not be put in checked bags...
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    Why did you start rebreather diving / what do you love about it ?

    Filled out the questionnaire. In my opinion, it is interesting to note that of those willing to take risk in order to experience the exceptional, there seems to be very little middle ground between the adrenaline junkies and those who carefully asses risk versus reward and prefer a more...
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    Universal galvanic sensors

    While I understand the argument, I think current events are obviously the reason for supply problems. This will pass and hopefully governments will learn from this experience and the next virus will not cause such market disruptions. In any event, I would not be in favor of standardization...
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    CCR supported locations throughout the Indo-Pacific

    Jheard89, just a word of caution about diving in the central Visayas. I dived with Alona Divers back in 2005, and while the resort and staff were very nice, there were almost no medium or large fish inside the main “marine park“, which had people fishing everywhere in it. The only good diving...
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    Whats going on at Rebreatherworld.com right now?

    Hi Chett, glad to hear you’re still helping out over there. Any chance we could get back the original front page with our avatars and the number of new posts?
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    The New Dive Rite Optima CM - My 30 Hour Review

    Don’t care about sensor errors due to condensation? Don’t care about scrubber efficiency? How many scrubber floods have you had? The Prism 1 has very good WOB and scrubber efficiency and the only architecture which allows PO2 monitoring without any electronics or battery. I don’t really care...
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    The New Dive Rite Optima CM - My 30 Hour Review

    The Fathom scrubber does not run “backwards”. It runs the right direction, inside to out, if you care about scrubber thermal efficiency and condensation being diverted away from the sensors by allowing it to form on the scrubber bucket wall, before the gas hits the sensors. This has been known...
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    The New Dive Rite Optima CM - My 30 Hour Review

    I don’t think discussing CCR performance standards regarding a new CCR is a hijack. The minutiae of CE is annoying, but since there is no other alternative to CE, it’s standards and process are bound to be debated...
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    The New Dive Rite Optima CM - My 30 Hour Review

    Totally agreed. Has the “notified body” ever attempted to clarify its standards or make its certification process more transparent?
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    The New Dive Rite Optima CM - My 30 Hour Review

    I think many of us in MERICA find fault with the EU standards. The inability of any MCCR to get CE because of a lack of automated O2 addition and control, is a perfect example of nanny state stupidity. Though I find many aspects of CE to be unnecessary or even counterproductive to diver...
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