Sand Dog IX Late breaking News

[Popeye]

Mike Ward,manager of the Dive Lab has invited all Sand Dog attendees to visit the Dive Lab for a tour of the facilities, lunch and witness an evaluation of an Phoenix modified U.S.Divers Aquamaster regulator on his ANSTI breathing machine. tour to start aprox. 12 noon 7 June 2012.

directions, updates and other details at our Thursday 7 june morning meet up at the Dive Locker,

[Drado]

Wow! I'm green with envy!

Will they be testing against contemporary regs? Could the HPR be thrown in as well?

[Bryan]

Wow! I'm green with envy!

Will they be testing against contemporary regs? Could the HPR be thrown in as well?

Regulator testing is not performed with dozens of regulators all hooked to the machine at one time competing to see who crosses the finish line 1st.

Each regulator is put through standardized testing. By comparing the results you can see how one stacks up against the other. Many companies no longer publish their results and for good reasons in some cases. The Phoenix has been tested at The Dive Lab before along with a Royal and a Broxton era regulator.

[8dust]

Nice work, Bernie! Thanks.

[Herman]

Ahhhh bleep.. you guys think about Henry and myself, we will be driving hard your way at that time.

[Bryan]

Photos from our last visit to The Dive Lab. Bernie has gone out of his way to make our trip to PCB a memorable one!

One of the challenges was making a custom mouthpiece so two hose regulators could be attached to the testing equipment.

[1969ivan1]

A big thanks goes out to Bernie for getting us in the the NEDU and DIVE LAB for a behind the scenes tour. Nobody else could have gotten us such access. Thanks again Bernie!

[captain]

Great job Bernie, thanks.

[Popeye]

Thanks Everybody,
But I think all the credit goes to Lt Medical Corp Paul Algra Diving Medical Officer(DMO) USN from NEDU's Medical Department and my long time friend and dive buddy of 40 years Terry "TK" Davis, Commander (SEAL) USN (ret) for joining us for giving us a very detailed tour and explanation of how the Naval Experimental Unit works.