Best of What's New 2008

Poseidon Discovery Rebreather

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The first scuba rebreather designed for recreational divers, the Poseidon Discovery lets you stay underwater for up to three hours—several times as long as with traditional scuba gear. Like all rebreathers, this model recycles your exhaled air, removing harmful carbon dioxide and adding fresh oxygen (unlike scuba tanks, which only dispense fresh air). But the suitcase-size rig costs about half as much as conventional rebreathers—used primarily by military and professional divers—and automatically conducts continuous safety checks of all components with an onboard computer. Instead of requiring training to manually mix gases in the event of a malfunction, like other rebreathers do, the Discovery lets you switch to a conventional scuba air backup tank and return safely to the surface. $6,000; us.poseidon.se

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Awesome. About time to get something new in sports diving. Cleverly engineered. Nice to see the cooperation between American and Swedish industry bringing new products to the market.

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