Beneath the Sea Meg Update

das

I stopped by the ISC booth and a nice chat with Leon. Lots of new inovations coming from Centralia that will be available this summer.

First is the Shadow Mounts. These are a replacement for the Tiger Gear. They are smaller, lighter and have a slimmer profile. These mounts are designed for steel or aluminum cylinders.
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The next inovation is an isolator valve for the O2 hose to the solenoid. Very useful for a failed open solenoid 'Boom' scenario.
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The next inovation and my favorite is a Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) canister. It weighs 4.5 lbs vs 11 lbs for the aluminum. Think of the airline baggage limits. Beside the weight issue the FRP canister thermal characteristics allow heat to be retained thus enhancing the scrubber efficiency.
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The next inovation is a new first stage. ISC will now use an APEX DS4 as the standard first stage for all their rebreathers.
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For the FFM folks ISC adapted a Drager Nova mask with a DSV for the Meg.
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For the really cool factor ISC now has available a urathane coating for the canisters. This will be available for the both the aluminum or FRP canisters. The above pictures of the canister is with the urathane coating.

For all those of you waiting for APECS 3, the next best thing is a fourth O2 sensor hooked up to a VR3. Existing units will need a new counter lung for the extra sensor. The fourth sensor while designed for the VR3 will be easily adaptable to other dive computers that will accept external input when they become available.
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Finally regarding APECS 3, according to Leon, "It will be ready, when it is ready." He indicated that the feature set has finalized and they are working on putting a prototype together. Production will begin when Leon is happy and not before.

UWSojourner

Nice report. Thanks for taking the time.

scubadan

Good Stuff! Thanks for the report. I've already started my shopping list.

mverick

Cool,
I put the LineX bedliner coating on my cannister. Had it put on my backplates and liked it so much I put it on my cannister. Kept my backplate from getting hot or cold from sun or water and when I sat it on my back it doesn't slide since it has a little texture.

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schford

Thanks for taking the time to share - much appreciated.

Stuart

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pattimegdiver

Thanks for the great report! It is great to see new items and new and improved changes. Great job Leon and crew.

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Explorer

Nice pictures DS. Glad you had the time to stop and visit Leon (and his fantastice helpers) at Beneath the Sea Show. Hope you and your meg are doing well.

Maybe it's time to make a trip to visit Mr. Hoy.

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trob09

Now that's the way to do it.

The one thing you missed here though was the Polyurethane counterlungs... I don't have any photos, but they seemed quite nice. They are visible in your Solenoid Isolator photo.

caveseeker7

Thanks for the pics and report, much appreciated.

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Paul Evans

Nice kit.

Now a mini meg in FRP with a Radial Scrubber coupled with those Tiny Lightweight clamps may make the ultimate traveling Rebreather, probably lighter than a rEvo Copis head and a VR3 plugged in Make a great piece of kit for Recreational Rebreather Diving.


When the wife see's this she will probably want one.
Ka ching...............

One thing I am suprised at is the use of DS4's, with the new paired regs from APEK's (Can't remeber their name, they were in the new tech section at LIDS). all four ports point straight in one direction, they seem perfect, without compromise for the Meg

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