Bringing Italy to America

[anytime]

I dive with a cressi eclipse titanium. I have had it for a year now and it has 150+ dives on it with 3/4 of those being at 100+ down to 135'. I love my reg. I have switched with buddies who have the scuba pro and apex and they all come up telling me they like my reg better. 2 have actually bought these for their primary. I think it is a great breather and I like the small size.

 

[tridacna]

Ouch.

I don't think you would be getting much diving done without getting bent (Haldane), nor flying to many diving places without jet engines (Whittle).

You wouldn't have seen any dive sites on TV either (Logie Baird)

You also wouldn't be booking many resorts without the telephone (Bell) or the world wide web (Berners Lee).

I guess the Brits didn't contribute much of any use to modern society with their invention or engineering of the above items!

I guess that you could add: Concentration camps (Boer War), Colonialism and total barbaric domination of at least 1/4 of the world, warm beer and jellied eel. What would we do without those Poms?

 

[Couv]

Powered wigs.

 

[tridacna]

Powered wigs.

ROTFL...I'm sure that you meant POWDERED. That was a funny image though.

We should not forget gruel, workhouses and all those fun relics of the 18th/19th centuries. Those Brits sure knew how to have a paaaartay.

 

[Couv]

ROTFL...I'm sure that you meant POWDERED. That was a funny image though.

We should not forget gruel, workhouses and all those fun relics of the 18th/19th centuries. Those Brits sure knew how to have a paaaartay.

Ooops, Did they envent spel chek to? No wonder my Limey wife is so damn smart! Better git me one of them powered wigs to cover my American brain.

 

[daniel f aleman]

British rock and rollers. :rock_band

 

[offthewall1]

Updates on Regs...

The Cressi-sub Ellipse Alaska free-flowed and froze at 84 ft in 36 degree water today on a test at Bainbridge Quarry in Pennsylvania. Our final evaluation of this regulator is that it is a great regulator in Warm water, but does not deserve the name Alaska and can not be taken seriously as a cold water regulator. It is a great breather and provides excellent breathing at all recreational depths in water above 60 degrees Farenheit.

The new Dive Rite RG3000 faired much better. While a slight free flow started at 84' in 36 degree water, it was quickly fixed before freezing by adjusting the external adjustment control. After adjustung the regulator continued to perform with no further issues. We suspect this is a regulator capable of competing with the cold water Scubapro and Apeks models...

It should be noted that the Cressi-sub was tuned down internally (less flow) prior to this dive and still cold not avoid free-flowing and freezing at depth in cold water.

Now you have the answers... Happy Diving

 

[Couv]

My favorite Limey words:

Twit, whinge, cheeky, bollocks.

Thanks to Tridacna I looked up the correct spelling for whinge.

"What a load of bollocks. I wonder if that cheeky, whinging, twit froze his arse off."

Note: The above has nothing to do with the Offthewall's post.

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[mahjong]

Congrats and good luck with your dive shop! And I'm going to guess you're stocking Scubapro and, for the budget minded, Cressi regs ;-).

Lets face it... I've been diving for more than a decade now and just recently took the crazy plunge and opened a dive shop. In more than a decade and more than 1000 dives I have tried a few regulators.

My very first regulator... a gift from my wife was the Scubapro MK2 - R190 combination. I dove that for almost 6 years before I tried something else. Then in quick succession I tried something from Mares (it free flowed out of the box), then the Atomic B1 (it was like sucking air through a straw in the inverted position), the Apeks ATX50 (a quality regulator) and then back to Scubapro with the MK20 - G250, the MK16 S550, the MK25 -G250HP, and finally the MK11 S555.

In all this time I preached that I would dive nothing other than Scubapro after having tried the Mares, Atomic and Apeks. My favorite regulator from Scubapro is the MK16 S550 with the MK25 - G250HP being a close runner up.

Now for the Surprise... I have a new favorite... and one I never thought I'd have. Now don't get me wrong - I still own my Scubapro's and still love them... but there is a surprising alternative that competes readily...

The Cressi-sub Ellipse Alaska 1st and 2nd stage regulators. Both my partner and I have tried these things and we're believers. The fact that both Scubapro and Cress-sub are made in Italy should not go un-noticed. The comparisons should not stop there. Both are quality regulators.

What is interesting is that Cressi-sub regulators have never really caught on in the USA... but they do very well in Europe and in Africa. So America, it's time to wake up to a less expensive high quality alternative regulator. The best part... they can be had for much less than their Scubapro counterparts.

If I were recommending a regulator today... I'd tell you to buy one of the following... in no particular order:

Cressi-sub Ellipse Alaska
Scubapro MK25/G250HP
Scubapro MK16/S550
Scuabpro MK20/G250

While some will swear by Apeks regulators (and I did like mine well enough,) I can not find it in me to put them up to the Italian standards. Not knocking them at all... just my personal preferences.

If you're in Baltimore... take our Cressi-sub Ellipse Alaska challenge. We go to the quarry and swap regulators with you. You tell us what you think.

 

[offthewall1]

Congrats and good luck with your dive shop! And I'm going to guess you're stocking Scubapro and, for the budget minded, Cressi regs ;-).

Actually not...

We do not stock Scubapro... we do stock Cressi-sub as a line. Our other Primary line is Dive Rite. We are a full line-up dealer for both brands.

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