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Dive Rite's wings utilize a 360 degree, donut-style bladder design that provides an even volume of inflation on top, sides and bottom, which improves buoyancy control and promotes a more efficient, horizontal trim, allowing divers to target lift where it’s needed to balance out their rig and stay in trim. The heavy-duty 210 ...

The most common technical objections to the use of ordinary SCUBA valves with pure oxygen are: (1) too rapid a speed of opening and (2) chrome plating of the surfaces in contact with high pressure oxygen that are subject to friction or impact, plus (3) improper lubrication. The DGX Premium O2 valves are designed to answer these ...

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The Dive Rite TransPac harness, TransPlate harness, plus the Hydro Lite BCs are available in a wide range of sizes. While weight and height are a good starting point for determining your size, a perfect fit requires additional information. Please carefully take the actual measurements explained below to make sure you select ...

For those sport and technical divers who like a wrist-watch form factor suitable for everyday wear, the Garmin Descent builds on the features of their premium multi-activity GPS smartwatches to add SCUBA diving functionality. The Garmin Descent series is based on their fēnix® multi-activity smartwatch adding sport and technical ...

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OmniSwivel International (originally named “M&J Engineering”) is one of the first specialty manufacturers for the diving industry. The company focus is to research and develop reliable products for the recreational scuba, technical and re-breather diving industry to make their tasks easier. Johan Wythoff (Owner/Engineer) has ...

Rebreather divers and purchasing agents new to carbon dioxide absorbent are rightfully mystified by some of the terminology. As for the terms aDsorbent vs aBsorbent, that is a debate for another day, call it what ever you like... most experienced rebreather divers just call it "sorb". There are a lot of parameters that go in to ...

The original specification for dimensions of the O-ring groove in the nose of the DIN connector for compressed air has an inside dimension of 12 mm and an outside dimension of 17 mm with a depth of 1.9 mm. The original specification for the sealing O-ring itself is an inside diameter of 11.2 mm with a cross section of 2.65 mm. ...

Poseidon recommends the o-rings on the Fischer connectors be lubricated, but does not specify the lubricant. Based on our many years of experience with Fischer connectors on several other brands of diving computers, Dive Gear Express recommends using DeOxit GN5. The DeOxit will keep the o-rings sufficiently lubricated plus also ...