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Hey there Scott, first, sorry that you got such a negative response from an iantd shop, sounds like they're not quite as in touch as they may believe, although i can certiantly understand their frustration with the industry: i spent two hours with Bob Hollis from Oceanic yesterday at DEMA, he made it VERY clear that they are NOT teasing, in fact i expect them to have a number of units out for trials fairly soon. They plan a small number of existing Oceanic dealers (50 or so world wide to start) that will be training divers on the units. How many, can't say for now... are they working, yeah and pretty damn well at that, will divers other than military dudes have access to them... you bet !!! the first people with access to the units will be trained at oceanic by oceanic.. then i believe they plan to let some of those guys dip some of you guys... i would expect this to take place this year.. they've spent over four mil and surely want to start recouping some of those coins sometime... but don't make any bets, there are alot of operational and training issues to cover. aloha, dennis pierce On Sat, 28 Jan 1995, Scott Cherf wrote: > 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. > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@opal.com'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@opal.com'. >
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