Apr 07
This fake Lactaid commercial is from Tyson Ibele, who’s work was just featured on BBTV.
Apr 07
From what I’ve heard unofficially, this woman was finishing her Advanced Open Water course and during her second dive on the Yukon, something went wrong and she was unconscious on the surface. The life guards were called and able to wake her up. So, this story has a happy ending, the woman walked off the boat.
The woman was exploring the the former Canadian destroyer Yukon when she “had some difficulties and made a rapid ascent,” Lt. Nick Lerma said. “When she surfaced, she was unconscious.”
Her instructor and the crew of the charter diving boat Marissa pulled the woman from the water and rendered first aid, and called lifeguards around 11:20 a.m., Lerma said.
She was able to walk off the rescue boat when she returned to shore, the lieutenant said. She was taken to UCSD Medical Center.
Apr 04
Salvo Diving Equipment (Salvo) has come out with a new line of LED-based diving lights. LED lights sip power and are incredibly durable. but that usually came at the cost of being difficult to focus. Salvo has sourced a LED-emitter that they feel have fixed this limitation.
This line of LED-based lights have a 6 degree focused beam which is rated @ 50,000 hours. The light also has 5 output levels the diver can choose from, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100%. These means that battery bur- time can range from 4 to 20 hours depending on output setting.
They were so impressed with these LED emitters that that discontinued all of there 10 watt HID lights! They are also working on some versions for video lights but as of now, if you want bright video lighting, you are better off sticking with HID or HMI as LEDs haven’t developed into this space yet.
You can check out there lines of LED-based lights here:
http://www.salvodiving.com/rebel_led_lights
Apr 02
Rebreather Pro has a nice video review of the rEvo rebreather. It’s a manual closed circuit rebreather that has been on the market for a year or two and has been getting pretty good reviews for it’s users.
Features:
- Manual user controlled closed circuit rebreather
- Unique twin scrubber system, two are sometimes better than one
- Integrated Heads Up Display (HUD) with redundant oxygen monitors
- No-tools-necessary low-profile stainless steel chassis
- 80m or 240ft depth limit
Check out the video.
Apr 02
This wreck/artificial reef was used as a missile tower test platform for submarine based warfare. They would load a missle into it, sink it underwater and launch the missile. Of course, when the Navy was finished with it, the ceremoniously dumped it into the ocean as an artificial reef, very close to the Mexican Border.