1992 Phibian CCS50 and CCS100

1992 Phibian CCS50 and CCS100

gb Before the Undersea Technologies UT-240 Oceanic announced the Phibian Oceanic is an American manufacturer of scuba gear. It was founded by Bob Hollis in 1972 and is based in San Leandro, California, United States. Its products include dive computers, rebreathers...
1991 Kraken-C2 ECCR

1991 Kraken-C2 ECCR

gb A modified early ECCR The Kraken-C2 rebreather tekst by Sharon Readey 11-11-2022 Stuart Clough founded Carmellan Research Ltd in the UK in 1983 (and it was dissolved in 2000). Carmellan was operating CCR155s since 1984 and then they modified them with proprietary...
FGT II semiclosed rebreather

FGT II semiclosed rebreather

de The Leba54 or FGTII is now called FGT 5400 SCR by Dräger The predecessor of the Atlantis sportsrebreather The new FGT 5400 DATASHEET SEMICLOSED REBREATHERDräger FGT II or Leba54 now FGT 5400Date: 11 Maart 2005Fertig-Gas-Tauchgerät IIDatabase semi closed rebreathers...
Nemba Dutch Navy SCR

Nemba Dutch Navy SCR

nl The NEMBA (NEtherlands Mixedgas Breathing Apparatus) is specially designed for the Royal Navy and developed by the Royal Navy, after which it was manufactured by the Siebe Gorman company Ltd. The device meets the magnetic and acoustic requirements, as laid down in...
Dräger SMS 2000

Dräger SMS 2000

de In 1992, Carmellan research was involved in the development of the SMS 2000 rebreather. Testing was carried out under licence from Dräger. Stuart Clough principal of Carmellan research and Pete Readey were heavily involved in testing. I am trying to find out the...
Cis-Lunar 1984

Cis-Lunar 1984

us Cis-Lunar has always had a special ring to it. When I started diving, the brand was completely unknown to me while Bill Stone, the founder of Cis Lunar, had been diving with the rebreather in caves for 5 years. The existence of rebreathers became known to me 16...
1984 Dräger CCBS deepdive Bailout

1984 Dräger CCBS deepdive Bailout

de 450 meter Bailout systeem for Bell diving Courtesy Dräger In 1984, Dräger produced a closed breathing system in which the gas supply was fed to the diver via an umbilical. This allowed the diver to work almost indefinitely especially if there was a saturation dive....
Gas Service, Divex MK IV SLS

Gas Service, Divex MK IV SLS

gb Divex Secondary Life Support (SLS) System emergency breathing apparatus Dan Dunfee, producer and director of Ocean Quest, and a former EOD diver, offered me the possibility to take a look in the NEDU test facility  were the Divex SLS deep diving bail out...
Normalair-Garrett Deep Dive 500

Normalair-Garrett Deep Dive 500

gb Closed circuit diving for your eyes only Normalair-Garrett Limited (NGL), or Normalair, was a British manufacturing company established in 1946 in Yeovil, Somerset, England, which manufactured high altitude life support equipment for the aerospace industry. Since...
1964 Westinghouse Arawak

1964 Westinghouse Arawak

us The tethered diving rig of Sealab II OK, and now something completely different. One of the units used for deep diving in the 60’s is called the Tethered Arawak system. It is a pleasure to offer this information to my readers. The Arawak system is a...