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The Way I Rate Rebreathers

People ask me many times which rebreather is the best one in the market. I usually reply that it depends on the application of the rebreather and the diving experience by the user. Does he/she travel a lot? Does he/she wants to make only recreational dives? Is he/she a cave diver? Or deep diver ...


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Sales of 2nd hand equipment

PTD is now offering 2nd hand technical diving equipment (rebreathers and other equipment). A big part is coming from PTD (replacements, etc.) but also from customers and students from PTD who whish to sell their equipment. This facilitates divers to invest in new equipment and newbees to buy equipme ...


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About probable 2003 expeditions

With DIRrebreather, Pim's Tekdiving PTD is currently working on the expedition agenda 2013. Several options already have been examined: two wrecks in the Philippines (130-150 mtrs and 80 mtrs), the Britannic (we keep on trying...) 120 mtrs, a wreck near Portofino 120 mtrs, a wreck in the English cha ...


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U455 expedition

On 16, 17 and 18 October 2012 the DIRrebreather team performed in total 17 dives on the wreck of the U455, near Portofino, Italy in 120 msw. All dives went well. The runtimes were max 3 hours. The gasses were 7/80 on board, bail out 10/70 (carry on), 18/45 (carry on, also for dil flush), 50% (on sho ...


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LAR V/VII course

Helge Weber finished his LARV/VII course on 07/10/12 in The Netherlands Vinkeveen. ...


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Hollis PRISM2 eCCR

22 - 27 September 2012 I have been doing an Instructor Cross Over course on the PRISM2 eCCR from Hollis. The location was Pensacola Beach in Florida US. John Conway and Matthew Addison from Hollis conducted the course. There were also other particpants (divers and one instructor). Sofar I'm impresse ...


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Second hand and barely used diving gear

"Summer Sale": I decided to clean up my collection of diving gear and related stuff. For sale: several CCR's and SCR's, parts (BOV's, heads, etc.), rigging, lights, video housing, camera's. Some of them barely used. Everything in "diving-condition". Prices range from 50 - 5000 EUR. Send me an email ...


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First Apocalypse OEM mCCR cross over course in the world

On July 15th, 2012 Ivan Calcoen (Belgium) and Jens-Uwe (Larry) Lahr (Germany) succesfuly completed their cross over on the Apocalypse OEM mCCR.  It is the first official training course in the world for the Apocalypse (from Open Safety). After three years after the introduction finally it is p ...


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CCR Courses Cyprus 26 June - 3 July 2012

Aris Nathanail succesfully completed his CCR Expedition Trimix Course and Trimxix Blender Course. Costas Tsangaris succesfully completd his Megalodon Cross Over Course. Christos Mavros succesfully completed his Megalodon Cross Over Course and his CCR Expedition Trimix course. The dives were conduct ...


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DIRrebreather Natal and Protee expedition

We returned from a DIRrebreather expedition to La Ciotat (France) to dive the Natal (a liner @ 120 mtrs) and Protee (submarine @ 120 mtrs) (17 - 21 June 2012). The participants were: Eveline Verdier on Megalodon (France) Alexandre Fox on Evolution (France) Franck Gentille on Evolution (France)  ...


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Graf Zeppelin and Franken Expedition

On Tuesday June 7th we came back from a very exciting DIRrebreather Expedition to the Baltic Sea, Poland. After 13 hours of driving and 12 hours on the boat (departing from Hel Port), we arrived at the diving site: the wreck of the Graf Zeppelin.    The Graf lays on 85 meters, but the int ...


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APOC OEM instructor and diver training

PTD is glad to announce that OSEL issued the training material for APOC OEM training (that is the O2 ccr with third party monitor). Sofar three training agencies have been granted the right to issue APOC certifcations: ITDA, PTA/CMAS and PSAI. Others will probably follow soon. So: as from today (cro ...


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IN MEMORIAM: Jordi Mateo

At the age of 41 years, Jordi Mateo lost his life during a hypoxic dive. With his death the diver community lost an excellent diver and diving instructor. Many people lost a very good friend… I met Jordi for the first time during rebreather courses. We joined DIRrebreather at the same time. W ...


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