Rebreather skills & tutorial videos
Rebreather skills & tutorial videos
There are far fewer rebreather skills demos than with sidemount and twinset diving. This is largely because, although rebreather diving has become much more popular in the last 10 years, it’s still a much smaller branch of the sport than standard recreational diving. Yet its share within tech diving circles has markedly increased over the years. Go to any reputable technical diving centre nowadays, and you might observe that half of the divers are on rebreathers.
When searching for rebreather videos on YouTube, I noticed many videos introducing rebreathers by channels that have little to do with diving. Avoid them like the plague, they are clickbait plain and simple.
Surprisingly, there aren’t many videos on rebreather skills. There are, however, a lot of tutorials, especially about setting them up and talking through how a particular brand works. AP Diving has some interesting information on its website. You’ll also find that some presentations and discussions on decompression theory and diving physiology are more oriented towards rebreathers. You can also read articles on rebreather diving on this website.
My experience of rebreather diving is that every instructor has their take on a given skill, but that’s more in the detail that is hard to pick up from a video. The skills themselves follow the same overall process. If you are already certified on a rebreather, they will make a lot more sense than if you are a curious open circuit diver interested to know more about rebreather diving.
The skills videos have been compiled as playlists and can be viewed below. But if you’d rather watch them on YouTube you can view them on my YouTube channel. If you know of any skills demos not shown on my playlists, I’d be grateful if you could contact me.
Rebreather Equipment Tutorials
Rebreather Information & Discussion
Rebreather Forum 4
Rebreather Forum 4 took place in Malta in April 2023. Videos of the presentations can be viewed on the GUE.tv website.
View them on the GUE.tv website.
DAN Rebreather Forum 3.0
Header image photo credit: Byron Conroy Photography
