The Art of safe CCR Diving
The purpose of this web site is to educate and inform the general public and interested divers who wish to engage in the activity of Closed Circuit Rebreather or CCR diving. Formal training stresses the importance of detailed knowledge of your CCR Rebreather unit, emergency related survival skills and environmental conservation.
The services, diving, support and training on this web site are offered by Andreas W. Matthes a.k.a. Matt who is an experienced CCR Diver and Closed Circuit Rebreather Instructor who has been diving CCR´s since 1997 and conducted over 700 hours of CCR diving in the fields of CCR recreational diving, technical diving, wreck diving and cave diving environment in the beautifull caves of Mexico. Matt is working and diving out of the ProTec Dive Center & Advanced Training Facility in Playa del Carmen.
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The best Closed Circuit Rebreather - CCR diving, support, service and CCR Diver training is available through Matt's commitment to the art of safe Rebreather diving. Matt is located in one of the most beautiful underwater environments on the planet here in the Riviera Maya of Mexico which includes the area of Playa del Carmen, Puerto Aventuras, Akumal and Tulum.
As CCR Diver and P-SCR Diver programs are available with Matt here in the Riviera Maya, Mexico Matt will travel to your location world wide and train you in your local diving environment, pond, lake, quarry, cave, reef, river, wreck or ocean for you to get the most out of your training experience.
At my location in Playa del Carmen, Mexico I offer Rebreather support in the form of selected Rebreather spare parts, Rebreather tank rental, bailout tank rental, Carbon Dioxide (Co2) absorbent (Sodasorb and Extend Air), oxygen sensors as well as air, oxygen and trimix fills to 3000 psi - 200 bar.
Purpose and goals
Becoming certified as a CCR Diver is verification that the diver has developed the skills neccecary, has gained the basic understanding of the CCR unit being used to be a safe CCR Diver. As in all of life’s endeavors, it is wise to crawl before walking, and walking prior to running. In CCR diving one has be cautious as skills are developed methodically, one has to become totally familiar with the CCR, and always respect the CCR. As CCR diving skills develop, CCR diving goals can be expanded.
Above all never forget to know your Po2 at all times and remember that complacency kills.
For each individual CCR Rebreather model and unit a seperate training program has to be completed as completion of training is qualifying the diver to dive one particular CCR Rebreather unit only. Training to become a CCR Diver is available with Matt on the following units:
A short history of Semi Closed and Closed Circuit Rebreathers
1689 Giovanni Borelli conceived a Closed Circuit Rebreather without active Co2 scrubber
1726 Steven Hale invented a Closed Circuit Rebreather with active Co2 scrubber
1878 Henry Fleuss developed a Oxygen Closed Circuit Rebreather for mine (underground mining) clearing which is successfully used in shallow diving trials as well as emergency response team evacuations.
1881 Achilles Khotinsky and Simon Lake developed a Oxygen Rebreather
1900 The Davis escape lung conceived as a submarine escape apparatus
1907 Siebe Gorman developed a Oxygen generating Rebreather
1912 Draeger demonstrates a functional Oxygen Closed Circuit Rebreather
1914 Siebe Gorman and Draeger develop a Nitrox Semi Closed Rebreather
1932 Charles Momsen developes the submarine escape unit for the American Navy
1936 Italian Navy introduces Closed Circuit Oxygen Rebreathers successfully in combat missions
1942 The English Navy and the American Navy developes Rebreathers for combat missions
1942 Hans Hass is beginning his marine life studies using a Draeger Gegenlunge Oxygen Closed Circuit Rebreather
1961 British cave divers using British Navy mine clearing Semi Closed Rebreathers
1964 The commercial diving industry is developing Closed Circuit Rebreather as bailout options for their deep saturation divers
1968 The first commercially open to the public available E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather is the Electrolung
1969 The E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather CCR 1000 is developed and modified into the MK 15 and MK 16 Closed Circuit Rebreathers who reach the market in the 1980’s
1970 The Fency company of France introduced a Passive Semi Closed Rebreather
1980 Jochen Hasenmayer developes his own Closed Circuit Rebreather the Speleo/Twin or STR 80 which is configured to be worn as a redundant double unit developed especially for cave diving
1987 The E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather Cis Lunar MK 1 is conceived and tested successfully for 24 hours underwater
1989 Olivier Isler and Alain Ronjat develop successfully their RI 2000 Semi Closed Rebreather which is used in a triple redundant configuration. The unit is especially designed for cave diving.
1994 The E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather Cis Lunar MK 4 is used during deep dry cave explorations for sump diving application
1994 The Prizm Topaz pre-production units are available for public trials
1995 The Draeger company of Germany introduces the A-SCR Atlantis to the public and open market
1996 The Prism Topaz E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather manufacrured by Steam Machines is introduced at the Tek '96 dive show in New Orleans, USA
1996 The AP Valves E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather Inspiration reaches the open market
1997 Halcyon is introducing the Passive Semi Closed Rebreather. The Halcyon P-SCR is developed and used for deep cave penetrations at Wakulla Spring, USA
1997 The E-CCR Cis Lunar MK 5 P Closed Circuit Rebreather is reaching the market and is used in 1998 / 1999 during the Wakulla II expedition
2000 Jetsam Technologies introduces the Classic KISS M-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather comercially available to the public
2000 The P-SCR Passive Semi Closed Rebreather RB 80 manufactured by Halcyon is reaching the market. The Rb 80 is especially designed for cave diving
2002 The E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather Megalodon manufactured by the Inner Space Corporation is reaching the market as a E-CCR with the APECS electronics
2004 The Submatix A-SCR Rebreather SCR 100 ST as well as the M-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather CCR 100 SMS is introduced at the BOOT show in Germany
2004 The E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather O2ptima manufactured by Dive Rite Inc. using Juergensen Marine Hammerhead electronics is reaching the market
2004 Jetsam Technologies introduces the Sport KISS M-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather comercially available to the public
2005 APD is launching the E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather Evolution with new electronics called Vision
2007 The Closed Circuit Rebreather Megalodon built by the Inner Space Corporation is available as a M-CCR version called the COPIS
2007 Poseidon of Sweden introduces the Cis Lunar MK 6 E-CCR Closed Circuit Rebreather
Please click these links for more information about CCR cave diving and CCR Rebreather world wide expeditions.
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