SF2 Rebreather: First Impressions

hey everybody I'm here at mission tech it is a demo event sponsored by TDI is an opportunity for divers to try out different technology and techniques of the tech world and let's see what they think my mission on this visit was was pretty much one thing and that is I wanted to try out rebreathers I'd never been under water with a rebreather before and I wanted to see what that was like the first rebreather I tried was the sf2 and here's a little interview that I did with Blaire Mott now I'll come back and tell you my thoughts a representative of course scuba force Canada I'm the distributor for skipper force Canada all right and today we're here talking about being it was up to two rebreather yeah so if I'm in the market for a rebreather why yours over the competitors well it's rebreather we've seen in we have a couple of different configurations for it our Ruby there's very light this breathes very well when you're in trim it's very easy to get in the water on and get it into turn very quickly most people have found within the first dive or so they find themselves being able to breathe very well in trim and go plan one of the things that you pointed out to me is that your rebreathers every breath you bring it breathe in is warmer yep and when I was out diving it I absolutely noticed that so the one thing about our rebreather is that the count there's only one counter line so flow of the air goes through the loop down here into your counter long up through the scrubber scrubber the action is the the reaction of the target scrubbing up carbon dioxide creates warmth and moisture so very short distance between the loop itself and the scrubber there for you getting warm moist air in fact you said very warm moisture and when you're at depth in cold water and your drive through your course will hold it makes a huge difference makes a huge difference on either the long dives when we're up in say Lake Superior and for seven degree water or if you're doing a 4-hour dive in 75 degrees this thing being warm helps you a lot when you're certifying new student yeah on rebreather so what do you find is the first or what's the most common hurdle that they have to to get passed and as they learn this new instrument you know what most people still try using their breath to adjust a buoyancy I'm sure you found that when you were in with us today and they're going out something to get the big deep breath in and expect to go up a little bit but when you have this thing figured out you'll find that your lung volume that's pretty close to lung volume of the counterlung you don't go anywhere you know so that's that's the thing that people have the biggest challenge with you see people banging to go and bounce along the bottom until we get that idea they're having to use either your your dry suit or the wing itself for point C even minor adjustments one of my men things you know missin anything it's a great rebreather we're really happy with it and that a lot of interest in it today very very times thank you very much write about yourself alright if people are interested in learning more about this who can they call we are on a school of course Canada you also see scuba force USA and Google us whatever em were up there James Drakkar in Florida represent us we've got a couple of great instructors down in Florida and we're up in Canada so it'll be close to Canada and get a hold of me Clermont thank you all right thanks so much I thank you very much you know regrettably I was not allowed to take a camera with me underwater and and this was just being safe when you're doing new things you need to focus on new things and it wasn't a good idea for me to come down and shoot video so that you can't see what I what I look like underwater here's my thought what I noticed about this rebreather was that it was a little more effort to inhale than what I'm used to on open circuit wasn't hard but it took a little more effort to inhale to draw that breath on this particular rebreather I had a very easy time finding my buoyancy and overall it was a fairly natural for me so the question of course is am I going to be purchasing a rebreather and the answer is only if I can figure out a way to hide several thousand dollars from my wife realistically as a recreational diver and it if you are a recreational diver unless you are doing long deep dives the advantages of a rebreather may not be warrant may not warrant the current cost it's certainly nice to have the ability to stay down longer and and not be concerned about running out of air although you certainly have other things you need to pay attention to but at the price point it's kind of tough to swallow unless you are the diver that is willing to do long deep dives if that's the case Blair told me that he actually did the math he figured it all out and the rebreather basically paid for itself after 60 dives if you're a long deep diver you probably should be considering a rebreathers if you're a recreational diver check out an event like TDI's mission tech give it a play and find out if it's worth the cost to you hope this helps dive safe

Channel: Casey Klaus

Views: 4,025

Keywords: sf2, rebreather, scuba, trimix, review

Id: KbbHdytnYGY

Length: 5min 20sec (320 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 03 2017