Bill’s Reals Blog - Scuba, Travel & Gadgets

There were a bunch of rebreathers at this year’s Scuba Show. I would say that it was easily double compared to last year. Rebreathers are interesting to me for two reason, they are big time gadgets and they are for SCUBA diving, it was to geek out at them.

First, I went to Silent Divings Booth. Silent Diving, is the North American distributor for the UK-based AP Diving Ltd’s Inspiration and Evolution rebreathers. These rebreathers are known for their engineering design and build quality and one of small population of rebreathers on the market that have a CE rating.

These fully electronic rebreathers, with multiple redundant safety systems and backups are “future proofed” with user updatable software and modular replaceable hardware. They have integrated decompression computers and the units have been as deep as 850 ft. The rep, a very nice man, explained that you could event let the technicians in the UK diagnosis your rebreather over the internet.

The Inspiration and Evolution are the same rebreather with different maximum dive times based on the size of the unit and related scrubber capacity. Both units start at $9,000.