The Most Recent Advances in Current Scuba Gea

For the novice diver, finding the perfect scuba equipment can be frustrating because so much of it looks interesting and even cool. You can really make a fashion statement with your wetsuit, alone, if you wanted to do that. A majority of the serious divers aren't interested in making a "fashion statement" however. They are looking for reliable, high-quality dive gear. You might want to have second thoughts before you buy someone else's equipment. For one thing, with different types of equipment it's impossible to inspect the inner working parts to make sure they are not damaged or weak. Our best advice is for you to always purchase equipment and gear that is new until you've
been around diving for a while and have the knowledge to choose quality used equipment.


An important piece of scuba diving equipment that you need to be familiar with is called a demand regulator. You can have multiple cylinders, or even one, which hold the gas you breathe. This air is actually under a great amount of pressure, around 4000 PSI or pounds per square inch; this is fed directly to what is called a diving regulator. In order to receive air at the right pressure level, the demand regulator is used to achieve this result. There are other important factors that are considered such as the depth.

Multiple hoses are not used on open circuit configurations instead of one hose. Sporting a two stage regulator design, and having a worst stage regulator to handle all of the high pressure in the cylinder, the single mode regulator setup is definitely ideal. In the mouthpiece that you will wear, a second stage regulator has been positioned as a demand valve.

The demand valve simply makes adjustments for the inhalation demand of the diver. High and low pressure devices work together to provide the right levels of air for each of the divers. The diver will exhale through a diaphragm that is a one-way device, and this is also part of the demand valve in the mouthpiece.

Technical diving is a fascinating area of scuba diving, and it is really not for rank beginners in our opinion. The kinds of different scuba gear needed for this are multiple cylinders containing specific gases. One type of gas, Trimix, is used at deeper depths only, for example. In addition, a vessel of oxygen that is pure could be hauled and employed while ascending stops for decompression. Clearly having more than one cylinder can bring certain issues for getting the buoyancy right. Technical divers don on high capacity buoyancy compensator (BC) for this reason. You should evaluate the conditions in which you are going to dive when you are deciding on what type of equipment to purchase. But either way, be very sure you have a firm understanding of how the individual devices and components work. It's true you must fully understand what each piece of equipment is designed to do and how it operates. But even more important, you must have a grasp on the behavior of the equipment when you are underwater.