Category Archives: Review Diving Equipment

SSI XR Cavern Course

SSI XR Cavern course in Thailand We have just finished the SSI XR Cavern course. Its the end of a 3-day intense Beta-testing our brand new SSI XR Cavern course program, deploying 3 out of 4 generic configurations; ccr, sidemount and twinset. Showing the compatibility of each system and universality in emergency situations. Well done Paul, Claus, Lassi […]

Underwater Light Dude Dive Torch review

Dive Torch review by Ben Reymenants – Underwater Light Dude   I destroy things. Not because I like to, just because my job poses high demands towards equipment. As a ccr cave instructor trainer, I live like a coal-miner; most of the week in the outback and every day underground. If there’s one thing I […]

Sidemount Bungee Systems

A Comparison of Sidemount Bungee Systems Diving sidemount has several advantages over back-mounted configurations, one of which is the use of sidemount bungee systems to secure tanks. Tank valves secured by sidemount bungee systems can be pushed away when they must be manipulated and hold tanks tight to a diver’s body at other times. Several types […]

Fourth Element – The Right Gear for the Job

Fourth Element – Thermal Protection Wear – The Right Gear for the Job Tech divers understand the importance of gear selection. We know it’s often possible to make a “quick fix” but that, ultimately, it makes more sense to invest in top quality gear will support our dive objectives and our comfort for years. You […]

Which CCR Rebreather – Pathfinder vs Poseidon MK6

Which CCR Rebreather The ISC Pathfinder vs Poseidon MK6 After the JJ-MEG comparison, friends and students have asked us to do a review on the so-called rec – tec hybrid rebreathers the ISC Pathfinder and the Poseidon MK6. So which CCR Rebreather? The label is perhaps an unfair one because as two of the most […]

Fourth Element Thailand

Blue Label Diving Thailand Dealer – Fourth Element Since April 2015 we are a Fourth Element dealer here in Thailand in Phuket and at our facility in Bangkok. Ben Reymenants explains why we have chosen to sell Fourth Element. In the past 25 years of diving, I have seen quite a few trends in dive […]

Fourth Element Drysuit

Cave Diving Thailand

My experiences with Fourth Element dry suit, the Argonaut Kevlar. Having paid the cost of this dry suit in an equal value towards excess dive luggage on planes, I decided to give this particular membrane suit a try. The fact that I live in a tropical country with a humidity through the roof played not […]

JJ CCR CE

JJ CCR CE Approval And there it is , the long awaited CE approval for the – quite famous – by now, JJ CCR. The guys at JJ-CCR in Denmark didn’t have an easy time; caught in transitions of European Norm Codes and testing personell turnover, they went to the bottom of the bureaucratic CE […]

Megalodon vs JJ CCR

Megalodon vs JJ CCR Having taught the ISC Megalodon CCR for a number of years, I recently added the JJ-ccr to my teaching curriculum. It wasn’t for long until at least a dozen fellow divers would PM me asking what the best rebreather was. This posed to be one of the hardest questions I’ve been […]

Dive Rite O2ptima 2014 Review

by Daren Marshall Dive Rite O2ptima 2014 Review The Dive Rite O2ptima CCR has been around for a decade and is very well established. As you would expect from a progressive company of actual divers that constantly tweak products according to their own real diving experiences & customer feedback, the O2ptima has had its fair […]