Joe Radomski Inspiration rebreather modifications
Joe Radomski sent me pictures of his new rig. This is really something nice! For those who think an Inspiration is bulky and heavy, here is a possible solution. You just contact Enrique of Tech Dive Tools and ask him to build you a TITANIUM inspiration housing. The housing should not weight more than ~ 7 kilogram. For nice handsets and real time decompression you call Kevin Juergensen and order a Hammerhead electronics upgrade. Unfortunately is was hard to find titanium screws and titanium small parts, but ok.. you can’t have it all ….
The larger cylinders are strictly bailout diver left is bottom bailout hooked up to a high performance Poseidon 1st with a Kirby Morgan second stage the cylinder on the right is used for deco bailout.. I dive with a 50/50 mix
This is how the rig is now.
The two larger tanks are 7 l steels with Poseidon regulators the two attached in front are 3l steels attached to quick disconnect brackets
The 3l on the left is my bottom diluent and the 3l on the right is my oxygen.. instead of using the normal Apeks 1st stages I am using DST (turret and sealed)
The manifold I had made for me by MJ engineering I gave him the exact layout and he machined it for me. Both bailout bottles have Inspiration compatible whips so I can use them for SCR use, and the 2nd stages have long hoses so they can easily be donated to others..
The unit weights approx 55kg fully charged
The hose colors as follows yellow = diluent / orange = bottom bailout / green = oxygen / red = deco bailout
This unit has my hammerhead attached as well as a cell integrated explorer computer from hs-engineering.
(different readings because Hammerhead is not calibrated 😉
Here the Hammerhead handset
Here the Hammerhead DIVA
The ADV is from Oxycheq its an improved version of Bobs, and I’m using a 360 degree swivel and a MJE cutoff.. made considerable better than the APEKS version..
Here you see the quick releases
Joe, we enjoyed the modifications with the pictures. Thanks for sharing and sending the photos. Dive safe!
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