Mission Bianca Ccr

It's been busy days between diving, boosting, filling, blending, taking photos.
So far it's going well. Had to abandon the full face mask due to fogging problems on long deep dives. Otherwise it's going well and Ethan is getting great images done.
Probably the best totals of Bianca C ever done. Ethan confirms, that the Helium is really helping keeping the head clear while working the camera and equipment.
Today Gerlinde joined in as model, I took a picture of them at "work".
You'll have to wait for better stuff until Ethan will release his pictures.

Mission Bianca Ccr

The "Bianca C" in Grenada, also known as the 'Titanic of the Caribbean' is so far an unsolved challenge for underwater photographers. So far nobody (and a lot of pros have tried) had made the perfect bow shot of that giant. Our good old friend
Ethan Gordon is here now on assignment for Scuba Diving magazine to get it done.
The ship has been hunting him like captain Ahabs white whale over the years.
The conditions are tough, bottom at 170 ft/ 50m, always current, little natural light and lots of particals in the water. This time we want to beat her with technology
We'll be using Evolution rebreather, OTS full face mask with Buddy phone.
Ethan is shoting with his Nikon D300 with Sea&Sea housing and high powered LED lights. Wish us luck!

OTS full face mask

Did our first "shake out dive" with the OTS full face mask this afternoon.
It fits very nice and seals perfect. The field of vision is very good.
Having warm air blown in your face while diving feels weird.
I'm having a little trouble with the equalizing mechanism, but I'm also at the tailend of a cold. The communication gear works great, even though it contradicts
the quietness of the rebreather.

I was about to write a report of new gadgets of DEMA - one very interesting and life saving one for rebreather divers - but did not get around to it yet. Will do later. Now I am busy trying out a new full face mask for Evolutions, just connected it and went to the pool. Full report to follow






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An interesting article on CCR diving Bianca C by Stuart Philpott. See it here
Published in the TechDiver section of Sport Diver Magazine in the UK.

Rebreather Weeks in August

A full three weeks we had visiting rebreather divers in August. Some great dives again, but also enjoyed some topside fun like the Grenada Carneval.
This time our main focus was deep diving around the wreck of "Bianca C" and exploring some newly opened up spaces. The old lady is crumbling - well her 50th anniversary of sinking comes up next year! Diving the deck gets deeper and deeper, soon it will not be for recreational divers anymore. But with CCR normoxic or trimix you can enjoy the gigantic wreck, take your time to explore and still have a clear head. And while you hang in deco, eagle rays, schools of pelagics and maybe turtles show up to keep you company. Here are some pictures of our weeks:

June Rebreather Week

This time Stuart Philpott - underwater photo journalist from the UK and Lillian and Mike from Canada joined us for a weeks diving Grenada's wrecks and reefs on rebreather. Even so the water just turned green a week before due to heavy rain and an algae bloom, we did have some phantastic dives and photo opportunities.
Stuart comments on facebook:
grenada is going green! rebreathers are definitely the way to go. i spent around 18hrs underwater, some dives were more than 3hrs long. the inspiration worked perfectly without a single fault all week. aquanauts are a top rate dive centre and the owners, peter and gerlinde, know the wrecks inside out. dive times at 40 metres on a rebreather were around 1 hour with 20 mins deco, not bad eh?
Lillian and Mike are still diving with us, water is back to blue again, but we kind of enjoyed the green, it brought a lot of marine life too. The ocean was just steaming.

Here are some of Stuart's Pictures:
Bianca C PortsideKing Mitch
Rebreather Room
Bianca C Bow inside