OMG/Apollo Castoro CCRs at OzTek4

[Pawel]

For those that missed OzTek4 or "felt uncomfortable" to have a look at OMG stand, here is some information on Castoro mixed gas CCR rebreathers that were presented at OzTek:

www.AliensOfTheSea.com/Castoro (http://www.AliensOfTheSea.com/Castoro)

Regards,

Pawel Achtel
OMG/Apollo Australia

[caveseeker7]

Hi Pawel,

thanks for the link, I appreciate it.
Bit of a way for me, but I wouldn't have been uncomfortable.
Am heading for the Aliens now.

Dive safe
Stefan

[caveseeker7]

here is some information on Castoro mixed gas CCR

Some, but not enough.
Is the scrubber the same as the P-96's? Hope so.
Is that just an Explorer, or do you use the Hydrospace setpoint controller?
With or without deco? RGBM or Bühlmann only?

[Pawel]

Hi Stefan,

Nice to hear from you. Yes, I know you would not be uncomfortable, but believe it or not, there are some clowns that felt that way at OzTek, came back home and complained they could not find any info on the Internet....

The scrubber is the same as C96 Pro (P96 was smaller, I believe). However we reversed the gas flow compared to C96 Pro. The WOB is very encouraging because of extremely short gas path compared to most other layouts and designs.

Castoro Explorer uses HS SP controller (which I feel is a weak point, but will do for the time being). We plan to replace it with Nemesis electronics in due course. Full HS trimix deco computer is bulit innto the SP controller.

One important difference to most other eCCRs: Both battery and solenoid are at 1atm outside the loop.

Pictured is a (working) prototype.

Castoro Abyss is much more advanced pre-production unit that should be available very soon after a range of internal and independent testing is finished.

Cheers,

Pawel

[caveseeker7]

Thanks for the additional info, Pawel.

Stefan