To All Napa Valley Divers:
Our next meeting will be Monday, March 9, 2009
Filippi’s Pizza Grotto
645 1st Street, Napa (east of Soscol)
Phone: (707) 254-9700
- Dinner (Dutch treat) will begin at 6:00pm (order off the regular menu)
- The meeting will begin at 7:00pm
Here’s what’s happening…
REBREATHER TALK
Rebreather Diving is becoming more popular with recreational and technical divers. The Dive Community and Dive Industry is seeing rapid growth in the CCR area. Divers wanting a better understanding and awareness now have an opportunity to attend a talk at the March Napa Valley Divers club meeting.
The talk will be presented by:
Alan Studley
* KISS CCR Photographer
* KISS CCR Instructor Trainer A.N.D.I. I.A.N.T.D & T.D.I.
Alan’s road to rebreathers started out many years ago, with a passion for photography. He traveled the world as a still wildlife photographer. His photographs featured in numerous wildlife publications. Alan combined his still photography and diving talents, and then progressed into underwater film and videography. Some of his work with sea otters and sharks amongst other marine life has aired on ABC, NBC, Show Time, The Learning Channel and syndicated television. He co-produced, Discover California Diving, DVD/CD, promoting diving in California.
Benefits of Diving a Rebreather
Longer Bottom Time
Imagine diving for 60 minutes at 100 feet with no decompression time. Or 90 minutes at 65 feet. Or two hours or even four hours at shallower depths. Rebreathers reduce the nitrogen out of the air you breathe, reducing significantly your nitrogen load that leads to decompression diving, longer surface intervals, and, at worst, decompression sickness.
Silent Diving
Your exhaled gas isn’t released into the surrounding water. This means you aren’t venting bubbles. Loud bubbles. Clouds of bubbles. This means you are diving silently. That silence, and the lack of scary random bubble clouds, allows you to get eye to eye with shy marine life that would usually hide upon hearing you. Most professional dive photographers are using rebreathers.
No Bubbles. Because your exhaled gas isn’t released into the surrounding water, you make no bubbles. No noisy bubbles. No clouds of bubbles to get in your viewfinder while you snap a picture of that elusive splendid Clownfish. In other words: no holding your breath so you can take its picture.
Additional Warmth while Diving
The air you breathe with a rebreather is warm and moist, rather than cold and dry on open circuit. This keeps you warmer throughout your dive (your body doesn’t have to expend energy to heat the air you breathe) and prevents dry cotton mouth.
Less Weight to Carry Around
Because a rebreather replaces the standard scuba cylinder and BC, it is often much lighter than a typical open circuit setup.
Reliabilty
Kiss time tested. In production 10 years.
Fun!
You really can interact with more underwater critters because you’re diving truly silent.
We look forward to seeing you all at Filippi’s Pizza Grotto!
