Best CCR in 2025-2030 Rebreather Markets

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

Just think of the innovative models a big corporation could bring to divers.

Rent-a-CCR.
Monthly app subscription.
Monthly Sofnolime delivery, 10% off if you prepay for a year.
Pay-per-dive trimix plan.
Dive computer sharing your location and dives with advertisers.
Unskippable ads at every gas switch.
Proprietary parts and tools.
No way to service your unit without a manufacturer.
Fifty confirmations in the dive computer to start a dive.
Lawsuits against OEM parts manufacturers.

You might notice that some of these innovations are already part of the industry - think regulator service kits or recreational computers.

 

[Sascha314]

You forgot the "dive outside your plan (depth)". Buy a temporary extension, or your computer will stop calculating the decompression.
Deco calculation in a server with monthly subscription.

 

[Mobulai]

I got one more “Bailout surcharge”

Oh the horrors..

 

[Sascha314]

In fact I think the Apple Watch has this subscription thing for diving.

*edit* just to add a "big" company starting to do dive equipment.

 

[Wibble]

Small vs Large organisations...

I've worked for lots of different organisations during my career. Large organisations are generally inefficient, slow, take poor decisions, are dominated by people without the core skills, and are disinterested in small projects. They do have money to throw around, but this comes at a cost of bureaucracy, dealing with bean counters and slow time. There's lots of waste, be that DIE initiatives, HR procedures, bean-counting wooden tops, etc.

Small organisations tend to be very focussed upon their core purpose which tends to be singular. People throughout the organisation tend to know what's happening and work toward the common goal. Decisions are made quickly although investment cash can be difficult to obtain.

Boeing is a great example. When it used to be run by engineers, it produced quality equipment and products. When run by accountants, planes fell out of the sky because the engineering was wrong and the bureaucracy prefers to kill people than sort out its own problems.


A rebreather built by a large company is never going to happen because the market is miniscule and will never expand due to the massive barrier to entry; skills, attitude and knowledge.

 

[mr_v]

Guys, you would not cut it as junior analysts at BMW. Where is your critical thinking? Charge per O2 button press or GTFO.

@Mas. - you asked whether Mares was wrong with purchasing rEvo. Statistically, they were.

70% of mergers / acquisitions do not bring the expected outcomes, but companies still buy other companies because new product development has a 90% failure rate. Typically, you'd want to buy a company because the purchase will improve your financial metrics. But more of than not companies buy other companies due to "strategic synergies" where the numbers point to a bad deal, but the executive team believes otherwise.

 

[Mobulai]

Guys, you would not cut it as junior analysts at BMW. Where is your critical thinking? Charge per O2 button press or GTFO.

It’s a subscription tiered plan for all gasses
Dil and BO are included in the super premium only
Plays better with customer loyalty

"strategic synergies"

imagine if you got the pieces of the whole ecosystem.. certification agency, reg company, dive computers, SCR, CCR, tennis equipment for the resort where the rest of the family that don’t dive hang
Good strategy on paper… (for the corporate overlords)
Given the firey crash of the Horizon, joke’s on them CxOs

 

[broncobowsher]

Poseidon tried the destination rental scheme. You get trained and you own your battery. The battery has you training limits built into it. Go to your resort, rent the rebreather, install your battery and go dive.

Yea, that was a failure.

 

[ginti]

Poseidon tried the destination rental scheme. You get trained and you own your battery. The battery has you training limits built into it. Go to your resort, rent the rebreather, install your battery and go dive.

Yea, that was a failure.

Rental schemes require high volumes. Again, we don't have them.

 

[Mobulai]

Poseidon tried the destination rental scheme. You get trained and you own your battery. The battery has you training limits built into it. Go to your resort, rent the rebreather, install your battery and go dive.

Yea, that was a failure.

Is that the same battery that the seven has?