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Folks -

I'm a new member of this list, having joined it after sending a request to
the scuba archive on the subject of rebreathers and getting back many articles
that refered me to the techdiver alias ;).

I'm a PADI AOW diver with about 70 logged dives (and a few unlogged dives)
in northern california and the caribean.  Last weekend I went up to the
tek95 show in San Francisco and discovered that something wonderfull was
happening in the technical diving community, namely mixed gas rebreathers.

I picked up some fascinating literature on the Oceanic Phibian(tm) CCS-50
and CCS-100.  Today I visited my local IANTD shop (where I will be taking
my level 1 deep air certification this spring) and had my bubble burst :(.
Their opinion was that:

1) Oceanic was 'just teasing'  about the Phibian; they didn't really have a
   product.

2) Closed Circuit systems like the Phibian were still restricted by the
   military and clasified as 'weapons', which meant that I didn't have
   a rats chance of training for one anytime soon.

Can anyone out there refute one or both of these positions?  I'd really
like to continue believing that there *is* a Santa Claus.

Thanks,
Scott.

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