Home Built Rebreather Articles

By Cedric Verdier

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Considerations about why and how to set up and use a bail-out rebreather

By Brent Hudson

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Based upon the mass produced Drager Dolphin semi closed rebreather - with a little help from Duct Tape!

by Dan Dunfee

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FROM RG-UF/M,…TO RGU-2,… AND BEYOND
By: Dan Dunfee
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BACKGROUND
Many years ago, I routinely worked in rebreather (Rebreather) diving gear. In years after leaving the Navy my diving-associated work focused on developing some open circuit (OC), mixed-gas, SCUBA gear for light salvage and technical diving. However, in that period I built a couple of Oxygen-only (O2) rebreathers for inland cave and recreational diving. A few years ago I was re-infected by a rather bad case of rebreather-itis. … and you know how that goes….

I selected the old, East German, RG-UF/M (RGU) O2 rig as a simple, 'low-cost starter kit' to get re-involved with Rebreather's. The RGU has quite a following in Europe and Scandinavia, including substantial modifications for mixed-gas diving. The original RGU design had already benefited from much study, modification (modding) , and reporting-out by other homebuilders such as Dave Sutton, Ken Swain, and Tom Rose in the US… and George Kamarinos, Lothar Weidinger, Uwe Lessman, Martin Klokosch, and others elsewhere.
Several of these are chronicled in the following URL:
RG-UF/M page

By Shell-Back

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A pictorial tribute to the homebuilder. With a bit of all American red-neck rebreather ingenuity emphasis!

By Jay Harding

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... mounted rebreather!

Jay Harding's modified Russian IDA-59, snagged off eBay

By Digger

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Its the rebreather of legend... Digger's SBPD (Shopping Basket of Death)

From conception, to birth, to its final demise! Digger takes us on a guided tour of his unique homebuild.

By Karl Denninger

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The K1, a new homebuild full eCCR; complete build-up and assembly, piece by piece

By Charles Read

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This article describes a "total homebuild" mCCR. It has recently done a whole nine dives without fire or flood! (especially flood).

By Duncan Price

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Trials and tribulations of Duncan Price's Homebuild rebreather... the P1SS

By Duncan Price

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This is a cautionary tale... Many readers will be aware that I've been messing about with homebrew rebreathers!

By Holger Berghäuser

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Article and images on the development and build up of Holger Berghäuser's TR300sc

By Gabriele Paparo

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Gabriele Paparo's WC1 Sidemounted Bailout CCR

Gabriele designed and built the WC1 using parts from his two Draeger Rebreather’s!