Rebreather

[Mark&Heidi]

What is a rebreather?

[Mark&Heidi]

It just dawned on me that I can use google. I shouldn't be allowed to think through my keyboard.

[navyhmc]

Hey, no problem. Have you found your answer? If not, we can help.

[Black-Gorrilla]

Originally Posted by Mark&Heidi

It just dawned on me that I can use google. I shouldn't be allowed to think through my keyboard.

LOL. that was funny...


here you go, from howstuffworks.com

In conventional scuba gear, when you breathe in through the mouthpiece you get a fresh lungful of air from the tank that you carry on your back. When you breathe out, the exhaled air goes out through the regulator into the water in the form of bubbles. A rebreather is a scuba device that allows you to breathe your own air over and over again and produce no bubbles. To allow you to re-breathe your air, the device must do the following:

• Remove your exhaled carbon dioxide - This is accomplished through the use of a cannister of sodium hydroxide (Sofnolime). The carbon dioxide (gas) reacts with sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide to form calcium carbonate (solid).
• Replace oxygen that you have consumed - Small tanks of pure oxygen or mixed gases (nitrogen-oxygen or helium-oxygen) inject fresh oxygen into the breathing loop.
• Control the oxygen concentration in the breathing loop - Solid-state oxygen sensors monitor the partial pressure of oxygen in the breathing loop and send this information to a microprocessor that controls the oxygen-delivery system.

[Mark&Heidi]

Thanks, I appreciate it.

[LRDWILDER]

A rebreather is something that we all dream about using and worry about paying for. :-)

[Z-naught]

Originally Posted by LRDWILDER

A rebreather is something that we all dream about using and worry about paying for. :-)

No longer...Open Safety is aiming to change that. Very soon, a state-of-the-art, manual closed circuit rebreather (mCCR) will be available that will cost about half ($2713.40) of what one of the least expensive mCCRs (Sport KISS: $4450) costs. The Apocalypse Type IV mCCR purports to be far more capable and dramatically safer than any previous or existing mCCR. I'm already saving for my own.

[rustyshakelford]

Originally Posted by Znaught

No longer...Open Safety is aiming to change that. Very soon, a state-of-the-art, manual closed circuit rebreather (mCCR) will be available that will cost about half ($2713.40) of what one of the least expensive mCCRs (Sport KISS: $4450) costs. The Apocalypse Type IV mCCR purports to be far more capable and dramatically safer than any previous or existing mCCR. I'm already saving for my own.

after reading this, im going to start keeping all my change in a jar also! I want one!

brett

[skdvr]

Originally Posted by Znaught

No longer...Open Safety is aiming to change that. Very soon, a state-of-the-art, manual closed circuit rebreather (mCCR) will be available that will cost about half ($2713.40) of what one of the least expensive mCCRs (Sport KISS: $4450) costs. The Apocalypse Type IV mCCR purports to be far more capable and dramatically safer than any previous or existing mCCR. I'm already saving for my own.

I have been checking those out for the past year or so... I will be interested to hear what people think as they start diving them....

Phil

[Heavy D]

Originally Posted by LRDWILDER

A rebreather is something that we all dream about using and worry about paying for. :-)

I like that statement. It is so true.

I will be curious to see what this new cheaper rebreather does when it comes out. I guess I better start saving my money now or playing the lotto, one of the two.

Oh, and if you want to be confused more Mark, there are closed circuit rebreathers and semi closed circuit rebreathers.