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Post by starkfish on Mar 2, 2023 9:39:46 GMT -8
Hello All, I'm new to this forum and wanted to start by introducing myself. My name is Neal and I live on Long Island, NY where I dive year round. I used to run a dive charter on the south shore but now just do mostly wreck diving on friends boats with some occasional commercial and scientific diving. I dive a rebreather and fill my own tanks with trimix and O2. I also have a home fill station with a RIX SA-3 compressor. Glad to be aboard and looking forward to joining the discussions.
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Post by nikeajax on Mar 2, 2023 12:06:42 GMT -8
Welcome aboard Neal! So, do you like vintage gear, or are you just interested in compressors? I'm a tinkerer, so I'm a gear junkie  Jaybird |
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Post by starkfish on Mar 3, 2023 5:50:46 GMT -8
Thanks Jaybird, I do like vintage gear especially the old commercial rigs. I started diving in the 70s, got certified in 82 and still have some of my original gear which I guess would be considered vintage now. I found this forum while searching for information about my compressor so I'm interested in both. I service a lot of my gear so you can call me a tinkerer too:)
Neal
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Post by nikeajax on Mar 3, 2023 11:58:35 GMT -8
Thanks Jaybird, I do like vintage gear especially the old commercial rigs. I started diving in the 70s, got certified in 82 and still have some of my original gear which I guess would be considered vintage now. I found this forum while searching for information about my compressor so I'm interested in both. I service a lot of my gear so you can call me a tinkerer too:) Neal Neal, will you start a new thread and share with us what you have? As for me, I love anything Healthways:  JB |
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Post by SeaRat on Mar 4, 2023 10:16:47 GMT -8
Thanks Jaybird, I do like vintage gear especially the old commercial rigs. I started diving in the 70s, got certified in 82 and still have some of my original gear which I guess would be considered vintage now. I found this forum while searching for information about my compressor so I'm interested in both. I service a lot of my gear so you can call me a tinkerer too:) Neal Neal, will you start a new thread and share with us what you have? As for me, I love anything Healthways: JB Starkfish, Welcome. I'm happy to see someone else who started diving, then finally got certified later. I did that in 1959, and was finally certified in 1963 by Roy France, a LA County instructor our high school dive club imported to Salem, Oregon from the LA area. We have a lot of expertise on this forum, including concerning compressors. As you know, we are into vintage diving, but also into modern diving too. Not many of our members are rebreather divers, so you can really help us to understand the rebreathers. Do you do any wreck diving? John |
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Post by starkfish on Mar 5, 2023 7:27:55 GMT -8
JB,
All I really have from my early days is a US Divers Calypso reg, a few Voit valves and my first tank a steel 95 so not much to start a new thread with. The US divers spg is kind of cool with an outer ring that used to show depth but only the pressure gauge part works now. At present I'm having an issue with my RIX compressor that I can't figure out so I'm planning on starting a thread concerning that when I have some time to detail the problem(s).
John(SeaRat),
Thanks for the welcome, I checked out some of the posts on this forum and saw that there was a lot of good knowledge about gear and things before joining. I've been diving an ISC Megalodon rebreather since 2008 and am by no means an expert but would be happy to share information about my rig to anyone interested. Wreck diving is what I primarily do in NY. there are a lot of great historic wrecks just off the coast that are perfect for artifact hunting and spearfishing.
Neal
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Post by vance on Mar 31, 2023 10:18:42 GMT -8
Welcome to the board. You have already contributed, so no need to encourage you further! Participation is very welcome here, so keep on posting!
Cheers,
Phil
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Post by SeaRat on Mar 31, 2023 16:22:16 GMT -8
Neal,
I just finished reading "Shadow Divers," so now I have a bit of knowledge of the wreck diving off New York. That's some intense, usually fairly deep, diving. (See my write-up on this book in the Diving Media section here.)
What's interesting to me is the history of the rebreathers, and how they work today. I know that diving with trimix is much safer than air for deep wreck diving, and the history of trimix is also a part of vintage diving.
John
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