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The rebreather information site.
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1st Day. Oban,
Railway Pier: tons of equipment on board of the Hjalmar Bjorge.
14 rebreathers,1 x OC, stage tanks, sofnolime and a lot of spare equipment.
Weather is good and we will push out to Skye overnight and dive the following morning. Short check dive at Neist Point
(wreck Doris).
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Mixing Panel on the Hjalmar Bjorge.
Look close to the right bottom corner:
One of the first micro booster from jetsam.
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50 l oxygen and helium tanks.
More than we need for the trip
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This is the new Jetsam baby booster from Steve.
Excellent toy for every rebreather diver :-)
The baby booster fill rebreather size dive tanks to 200bar, oxygen or diluent.
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This is the power Zodiac from the Hjalmar Bjorge.
We use it with 15 people, but the record is 23!
( this must be the “world record”).
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2nd Day:
crossing from Skye to Kilda
Boreray:
we dive the “Sgarbhstac Submarine Arch”.
The apex of the arch is at a depth of 30m and it then flares out to meet the seabed at 50m.
The arch is about 30m long and 20m wide.
Seals are swim through the arch.
This dive site is absolut amazing !
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3rd Day:
Village Bay Site
Kim and Gordon are doing prefly checks.
They are diving the new
“Sport KISS” rebreather with the also new OxyCheq BC.
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3rd Day:
Dun: Bay Site
two caves:
Alejandro with his KISS rebreather.
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prebreathing the rebreather.
Mikes first KISS dive!
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Diving the Kiss unit with 5 liters steel tanks and a portland steel frame.
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Village Bay, Hirta, St. Kilda.
Steve and Mike.
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Back on board and still alive!
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First exchange of ideas after the dive.
Mike, Chris, Steve and Gordon.
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This evening Mark and Steve are testing the new Sport Kiss rebreather
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Kim,
Mark,
Chris,
Steve
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4th day:
We are diving Stac Lee on Boreray!
Stac Lee (175m ) is probably the grandest rock wall in British waters.
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The Saw Cut:
a narrow cut 1-3m wide, 26m deep, shooting 60m straight into Dun.
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Saw Cut, Dun:
Scott is diving the new Sport Kiss rebreather.
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The walls are very sheer and coated with soft corals and anemones.
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Dun Cave.
We are looking for the arch, but we found two small caves :-)
The 1st one on the right site was big enough for 5 divers.
2nd Cave on the left site has a tiny entrance, but than the cave opened to a big hall.
This is a beautiful place!
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Jeremys exploration of the cave entrance.
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Kim,
researcher of the cave entrance!
She dives her Sport Kiss RB.
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5th day:
After the morning dive at Mionastac, Hirta we go back to Boreray.
Here we are diving and snorkling the hole day with seals,
a great fun for all !!!
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Craig and John are diving Boreray north east site.
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6th day:
After 4 days very good diving we have to go back to Oban.
St.Kilda was amazing!
On our way back to Oban we dived the the small isles, Oigh Sgeir
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7th Day:
Our last Dive: Wreck Rondo, Sound of Mull.
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Mike is diving between the rondo and the wall
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Last stopp at the stern of the rondo.
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The shipwalls are beautiful coated with colour anemones and soft corals.
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KISS Rebreather Trip
10-16.07.2004, St. Kilda, Scotland
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Jeremy, Mike, Ekki,
Heike,John, Scott, Mark
Chris, Gordon, Craig,Steve, Alejandro, Kim
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Photos by Steve Millard, Chris Edge, Kim Smith, Scott Maxwell, Mike Steinbrecher, Ekki Schepanski.
Spezial Thanks to Hannah, Heather, Ratchel and Mark from:
“Northern Light Charters”.
Ekki Schepanski****
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