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Tino Corp.)
Impossible is not an Italian word ...
From my experience of working with Italian companies I can confirm that nothing is impossible.... it just depends on who you know, what they owe to whom and how much they are willing to give them to get it.
Its a shame the process is so expensive, otherwise it would be in the interests of Jetsam and the other KISS Style CCR makers to have a new CE number and process created for certifying their products (I believe the UK represents one of Jetsams biggest markets yet they don't have CE) We might all agree CE isn't really of much interest to us but it does make everything that currently isn't "above board"
Back to Submatics and Aquatek Voyager... both look like very nice products, I've had a chance to pull both apart at Dive Shows but while the design and construction is nice they (to my knowledge/up to know) have left adequate (IMVHO) triple redundat PPO2 monitoring to the consumer to add. To my mind this is a failing that could be easily fixed.
I wonder if the SCR/CCR CE approval debate is what has kept their PPO2 monitor as a minor feature?
I suspect that until they sort this out to the average (highly suspicious) divers mind Jetsam will continue to sell more rebreathers.
BEN
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