Greetings fellow divers. This month, I thought that an appropriate subject would be to talk about umbilicals. If you had the fortunate experience to attend Underwater Intervention 2008, you would have seen a plethora of choices when it comes to ...
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Drysuit Ring Systems
It’s come to my attention lately that there seems to be some confusion about the layout of some drysuit ring systems. It may be that the instructions are nonexistent, confusing, or you just plain can’t find any information from the standard ...
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Maintaining Your Desco Air Hat
If you dive in wondrous places like sewer treatment facilities, nuclear power - plants, cement plants, or other challenging environments, then you’re probably familiar with the Desco Air Hat. This month, I thought that we’d take a look at this tried ...
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How To Maintain Your Classic Diving Helmet
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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