Matti’s IDA 59
| Matti Anttila from Finland bought a IDA 59 through Ebay. He checked his set and step by step rebuild the unit. This write up shows the steps to be taken to use the Russian IDA 59. During his research he found that some parts were missing and others need to be cleaned. This page also tells the story how this unit was build and why it can be extremely dangerous when used by people who are not specialists. His experience offered the knowledge on how to modify this unit in the right way. |
| Before even thinking about using or adding a modification to this unit, please understand that this is a complex unit that uses techniques that cannot be applied easily. The oxygen mass flow valve is set in such a way that when diving this unit with standard sofnolime, it will lead to hypoxia and death. You need flow measurement equipment and a large knowledge of rebreathers before even thinking to go diving with this unit! Diving this equipment without a continuous control of your pO2 is extremely dangerous and considered suicidal! |
Photo courtesy of Sten Stockmann
Therebreathersite was founded by Jan Willem Bech in 1999. After a diving career of many years, he decided to start technical diving in 1999. He immediately noticed that at that time there was almost no website that contained the history of closed breathing systems. The start for the website led to a huge collection that offered about 1,300 pages of information until 2019. In 2019, a fresh start was made with the website now freely available online for everyone. Therebreathersite is a source of information for divers, researchers, technicians and students. I hope you enjoy browsing the content!