Best CCR in 2025-2030 Rebreather Markets

[mr_v]

a radial scrubber is complex?

A radial scrubber takes a lot longer to pack requiring a lot more care for tamping down with several top ups. It’s not difficult, but takes a lot longer than the squat, compact Revo scrubbers.

No, it is not complex.

8lb radial scrubber is quicker to pack than 2 rEvo baskets. But then I am not the one to show up with a mallet at a dive site.

Pack 1/3. Tap, tap, tap. Pack 1/3. Tap, tap, tap. Pack 1/3. Tap, tap, tap. Shake - do you hear sorb moving? No? Good to go.

 

[Mas.]

Well, no, now you mention it, especially as they have Mares, a large company, behind them.

Seriously do you have any good reasons why to choose any other units?

 

[Wibble]

Seriously do you have any good reasons why to choose any other units?

There's a ton of personal preference and other criteria for selecting rebreather units. When you get up close to them, you'll see there's many reasons for choosing one over another. They ALL meet type approval standards (unless you've a really esoteric unit). They ALL work for the majority of dive profiles.

Decision criteria includes:

• Who your preferred instructor is?
• What your preferred unit type is: backmount, sidemount, chestmount
• Do you have a strong preference for one brand?
• Who you dive with -- which box do they have?
• What boxes do you see on your local dive boats?
• Are spares readily available?
• Is servicing available -- easy or return to base?
• Is your LDS (local dive shop) pushing their brand on you?
• Are you buying second hand?
• What sort of diving do you plan on doing long term (recreational, deep wrecks, team diving, overhead diving/caves, long carries to dive base, shore diving, boat diving, MOD3 deep+long diving)
• What sort of dive profiles will you be doing in the short/medium term (shallow non deco, shallow longer with deco, beyond 40m/132ft with deco, beyond 60m/200ft with lots of deco and trimix...)

As a first unit, almost any CE certified unit will do. I say that as this applies to all "good" units that have a world-wide market.

Go to a dive show and talk to people whilst kicking the tyres. "Why should I choose your box...?"

Remember: there is no perfect rebreather; they all have pros and cons.

It's a very personal choice.

 

[Dsix36]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you mean that you CAN get the water out if it's in the exhale lung. But, if it's in the inhale lung (as it was when I flooded mine), there is no getting it out and, really, you need to bail to avoid possibly inhaling caustic.

Not what I mean. granted if in the exhale CL then it will be absorbed by the sorb or if there is enough it will saturate the upper canister as it goes through and into the inhale CL and from there it is removable. I said it was not pretty, easy, or safe BUT it is doable.

It is possible to dewater the ehale CL without forcing it through the sorb though and I really prefer that method since it is basically simple and easy

 

[stuartv]

Not what I mean. granted if in the exhale CL then it will be absorbed by the sorb or if there is enough it will saturate the upper canister as it goes through and into the inhale CL and from there it is removable. I said it was not pretty, easy, or safe BUT it is doable.

It is removable from the Inhale CL? How?

Please DM it to me, if you don't want to post it here, and if you have time and don't mind.

I am really curious how you are accomplishing that. I hope to never, ever (again) have a use for doing that. But, I would like to know what is possible.

 

[mr_v]

It is removable from the Inhale CL? How?

Please DM it to me, if you don't want to post it here, and if you have time and don't mind.

I am really curious how you are accomplishing that. I hope to never, ever (again) have a use for doing that. But, I would like to know what is possible.

Carefully touch water with the tip of your tongue. Do it _very_ carefully. No burn? Take a gulp, get off the loop, spit it out, get back on the loop. Repeat.

Look, it is not safe, pretty, or even recommended. But you haven't lived if you haven't done that, prebreathed on descend, or mixed lubricants ;-)

 

[Dsix36]

Carefully touch water with the tip of your tongue. Do it _very_ carefully. No burn? Take a gulp, get off the loop, spit it out, get back on the loop. Repeat.

Look, it is not safe, pretty, or even recommended. But you haven't lived if you haven't done that, prebreathed on descend, or mixed lubricants ;-)

Someone figured it out. If he can do it it anyone should be able to.

You can also just "breathe " it through the DSV to get it to the exhale side

 

[stuartv]

LOL! Got it. Thanks!

 

[mr_v]

Someone figured it out. If he can do it it anyone should be able to.

You can also just "breathe " it through the DSV to get it to the exhale side

Hey now, what's up with "if he can do it?"

;-)

 

[stuartv]

Hey now, what's up with "if he can do it?"

;-)

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