New Poseidon Regs

[Vtach]

My first Poseidon was the Triton. I never had a problem with it in any conditions. Poseidon then discontinued support for those reg's so I had to switch to the Cyklon. I had my Cyklon fail to deliver air twice. Once was in the Wolf River in December and the second time was in Lake Michigan on the Milwaukee in February. Both times I could not get a full breath out of the reg. It was a relatively gradual onset. Breathing normally at the beginning of the dive, start to get a bit of restriction and then 5-6 breaths later it was like sucking air from a straw. I switched to my backup and tried the purge the damn thing and all I got was a trickle of bubbles.

Those 2 failures and the fact that I never really liked the side exhaust of most Poseidon regulators, sent me looking for something else. I am diving Apeks now and no failures (knock on wood). I still have my Cyklon but it is used primarily for a stage reg now.

To each his own....but there is something to be said for universal hose sizes, easy break down and cleaning, swappable second stages, environmentally sealed first stages....