New Poseidon Regs

[FreediveWI]

I'll have to keep this short since I am on my father-in-law's computer.

Actually, he and I both used to use Posidens. We have both switched to Apeks. I switched after mine froze up on me and started spitting ice chunks down my throat one cold winter's day while I was doing a slavage job on the Summerfest Island under 4' of pack ice with 6" of vis. Not the best time to be sucking down air that had the consistancy of a blended maragarita! >

Another instructor/boat captain freind of mine dumped his after a winter charter out to the Willey when his froze up solid on him and stopped giving him air. We didn't get rid of our regs because we read about a problem on an internet news board, since they weren't around back then, but rather becasue they failed on us when we needed them.

Gert has covered many of the other main topics. The one thing he didn't cover was how they got such a good reputation to begin with. If you go back to the first big Navy tests, in 1987, Posidens had the best test ratings. Only 1 Scubapro made it, the G250, and only a couple of Aqualungs- the Conshelf SE and the Supreme first stage attached to the AGA second stage. All total there were 7 regs, 3 of them Posiden.

Of course, since that time ALL of the other regulator comapnies have caught up, and even surpased, with better regs that use standard parts and cost a LOT less money.

IF you use enough Helium in your mix you can even make a Sherwood Brut breath nice, and keep a Scubapro from freeflowing.

Jon