diving equipment

[Tom The Hunter]

Which are the most important firms that produces diving equipment?
Thanks

[Flagg]

For what purposes?

Military or civilian?

Open circuit or closed?

[Eike, ger]

Military:
Closed circuit. The only firm I know is Dräger.
Produces for German combat divers but for the S.E.A.L.s and other units, too.
Newest model is the "LAR VI". Its non-magnetic so that underwater expressions don´t recognize it. Immersion time up to 4 hours. Disadvantage is a small submerged depth (10 meters). Maybe you find more facts about it at google. It´s to hard for me to translate all the technical language from german to english. http://www.sondereinheiten.de/kampfschwimmer/ausruestung.php]Here i got it

Civilian:
There are vermy much frims: My favorites: Seasub, Cressysub, Aqualung ( It´s from my memory-can´t find my catalog. I don´t know if you write it like that)

[Harpago]

Dräger and Interspiro must be the biggest ones, is it for clearance divers or underwater engineers/hardhat diver ?

the above mentioned make CCS's

interspiro also makes engineering full-face masks. Other producers of hardhat dinving stuf is: Kirby-Morgan, desco, aquadyne to name a few.

Diving suits would be: Viking(trelleborg), DUI, Otter, Ursuk OY

cheers

[kutter]

Another manufacturer of CCS's is U.S. based Carleton:
http://www.carltech.com/diving/default.html
Their rebreathers seem to be targeted to mine clearance divers.

[Tom The Hunter]

THANKS TO ALL!

[fantassin]

That's the site you want if you need to get yourself a rebreather.

http://www.omg-italy.it/inglese/rebreathers-civili.htm

[Flagg]

OR, for other closed circuit stuff(heavy enphasis on Russian kit):

http://www.nobubblediving.com

[Aussie E]

Another rebreather site:
http://www.therebreathersite.nl/database_oxygen_rebreathersNL.htm
And a specific website on the Mk15 and Mk15.5 with excellent hi-res of the units:
http://www.deepdiving.net/15/15v155.html