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Regulator Cressi Ellipse Black MC5 – Product Recall

GULLIVER — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:23:33 +0000

Regulator Cressi Ellipse Black MC5 is being recalled due to the detected problem with the port of high pressure.
Quantity: 200 units

Partial block of high pressure port can cause an incorrect evaluation of the gas pressure in the cylinder. The company has received three complaints about incorrect assessment of gas reserves using this controller. Accidents have been recorded. Product marks on Regulator: “Cressi MC5″ and “Cressi Black”. Regulators were on sale in the period from March 2009 to August 2009.

Users must immediately cease operation of these regulators and send them for free repair.

Virtual underwater world of diving

Diverdude — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:00:33 +0000

Fantastic underwater world for inhabitants of large cities ( such as me ) is available only in TV shows of NGC, PC games and Screenservers. And only once or twice during holidays we are planning our vacations for admiring the beauty of underwater world. But soon things can change. And for the diving among coral reefs we’ll not have to go to sea.

With the new device developed by German Institute for Applied Information Technology Fraunhofer (Fraunhofer FIT), you can swim in an empty swimming pool, but it would seem that around you are tropical fishes, algae and corals.

Building such a system, was a great challenge because it was necessary to ensure that the computer and display are waterproof, as well as their pressure resistance when submerged. But German scientists succeeded brilliantly.

The prototype consists of a backpack with a mobile computer system for determining coordinates of swimmers and masks and equipped with a special display and camera. The latter transmits visual field of human computer. He also guided by the testimony of the inertial and magnetic orientation of the system, imposes real-world perspective on the necessary virtual objects. What their position exactly correlated with the actual movement of people under water. During the dive is observed bare walls of the pool and the virtual display with the fish-mask. As a result, swimmers think that they are moved to a fantastic world.

The authors have created a demo of the game. There are six, and each is unique faunas available for “diving”. In one of these Mirko hidden chest with treasures. But you can open it just by typing the code. Part of this code are scattered in other islands, but the hidden in the «magic mussels». And all of this – in a completely empty the pool.

Such a search of treasures, only demonstrates the potential of new items. Its founders believed that these submarine games can be a «magnet» aquaparks.

But the development has far more serious scope, as noted in a press release of the Institute: Training of professional divers and divers engaged in the repair and inspection of underwater structures. Virtual World in the pool may be a copy of weightless drilling platforms, dams, or pillars of the bridge.

Underwater Park in Izmir ( Turkey )

Diverdude — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:26:09 +0000

Soon another underwater park is going to opened. The purpose of establishing a second underwater park in the world is to attract divers to visit city Izmir (Turkey).

To protect places of ancient shipwrecks and other cultural resources from flooded looting, Turkey strictly regulated dive sites with wrecks. Turkish laws prohibit the lovers to explore the place of actual shipwrecks in coastal waters of Turkey. But tourists can have an interesting dive as alternative. It was decided to recreate the exact copy of a merchant ship which sank in about 600 BC. All constructions are already finished and the ship has been flooded about 150 meters from shore at a depth of 15 meters. Bit strange but still cool

Diver found dead in 55 meter Depth

Diverdude — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:30:50 +0000

On January 23 diver dived in the area of coral reef in the Gulf of Eilat ( Aqaba ) and did not surfaced.

Two other diver committed together with the technical dive, surfaced. According to them, they searched for their comrade under the water, but did notfound him.

Officers of scuba diving club, where divers were preparing to dive joined for searching the missing diver, but with onset of dusk they had to stop.

The search was resumed the next day. The body was discovered at a depth of 55 meters.

Compressed air in the usual cylinder usually enough for an hour of immersion in a relatively small depth ( 5-6 meters ). However for technical diving to depths in excess of 30-45 meters, a special mixture in the cylinder ends quickly.

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