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Divers can soon sit around the fire and talk about the old days when we had to use those stiff and bulky rubber hoses on our regulators. With the introduction of the new Miflex Xtreme-hi (high pressure) hose there is no longer any reason to have dangly rubber on your reg. This product line is nothing less than amazing. First there was the [...]

Silent Diving Systems is recalling about 820 scuba diving hoses sold separately or on rebreathers between Jan 2007 and Aug 2008. The diving hoses may have been made without crimps, which can allow gas to leak or water to enter into the re-breather unit. The crimped hoses are used to carry the air supply in [...]

There is a joke line in the tech world, “standards must be very important because there are so many of them.” The is case with rebreathers. Each manufacturer and sometimes each version from the same maker has hoses going to different spots and different ways the gases flow through the unit. University of Rhode Island [...]

Having been reserved for deep diving enthusiasts and military divers in the past Swedish based Poseidon is now bringing Rebreathers to the sports diving market. This fully automatic unit, the Mk VI Discovery, is touted to be plug and play. “It is like a modern car, electronics handle brakes, stabilizing systems and all other gizmos [...]