Instead of our usual fare of maintenance tips for today’s modern and technologically advanced gear, let’s take a look back and discuss maintaining historical diving helmets.
I recently had the honor and privilege of diving Rich Riley’s Schrader ...
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Maintaining Your Pressure Cylinders
Tanks, tanks, and more tanks. This issue we will go over some details and maintenance tips on scuba pressure cylinders. Look for a future article on highpressure vessels. For now, I would like to concentrate on those colorful vessels that we throw on ...
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Full Face Masks
Full-face masks. Some of us have been using them for years for bridge and tank inspections. Others have just started looking at this option as an alternative to breaking out surface-supply gear for subsurface work. Full-face masks (FFM) have been ...
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Drysuit Maintenance Tips
For a brief history of the drysuit, we have to start with the development of the diving helmet. The first of these was the “smoke helmet,” which was invented by Charles and John Dean in England in or around 1824.
The brothers faced two challenges ...
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Maintaining Your Gorski Hat
Let's takes a look at one of the popular new helmets on the market, the Gorski Hat, and what it takes to maintain it. Its creator, Les Gorski, focuses on simplicity, and has designed a rugged, stainless steel commercial diving helmet that is all ...
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