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About 2 years ago it was time to take all our good ideas about the then unnamed regulator and actually build a few......Needless to say that cost a lot of cash. I approached 12 people asking for cold hard cash to get the prototypes made. In exchange they would get the 1st production regulators. At the time all we had were good ideas and Luis drawings for the main body and 2nd stage volcano orifice. Thanks to those 12 I got enough parts made that real time experiments and diving trials could commence. To their credit all they had was my word and the belief that I would make it happen.slonda828 wrote:Is there a special significance to the DD serial numbered Krakens? I know JES has one, and I have seen a few others.
I'm up in Northern Wisconsin this weekend taking the ERDI 1 course for my dive rescue gig with the PWFD. The Kraken arrived after I left and I cannot wait to see it! Hopefully the weather gods will smile upon me and I'll get to test it Monday as I am off. Film at 11:00.... I hope!Bryan wrote:Nice looking rig! I'll bet you get tons of questions about your REBREATHER at Ginnie this weekend Thanks for posting the picture. I'm really surprised that so few new owners have posted pictures of the regulators they have waited so long to get....We worked on the project for just shy of 3 years and I'm anxious to hear everyones 1st impressions of the Argonaut.
It has only been two years since we stated this project, but it does seem like a lot longer than that.Bryan wrote:About 2 years ago it was time to take all our good ideas about the then unnamed regulator and actually build a few......Needless to say that cost a lot of cash. I approached 12 people asking for cold hard cash to get the prototypes made. In exchange they would get the 1st production regulators. At the time all we had were good ideas and Luis drawings for the main body and 2nd stage volcano orifice. Thanks to those 12 I got enough parts made that real time experiments and diving trials could commence. To their credit all they had was my word and the belief that I would make it happen.slonda828 wrote:Is there a special significance to the DD serial numbered Krakens? I know JES has one, and I have seen a few others.
I stated calling those 12 divers The Dirty Dozen and the serial numbers on the 1st 12 regulators are DD-1 to D-12 especially for them.
UPDATE: Luis just reminded me about the 4 bodies we had first. Completely forgot about those but I'll let him tell that part of the story. But still the funding from the Dirty Dozen let me start the production trials and gave us the prototypes that the test divers were using in various places on the globe.
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