New rebreather sips Helium compared to older systems
For all of you with a hard hat diving interest, the Navy’s new MK29 Mixed Gas Rebreather system, shown below, was recently developed at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division. Designed to conserve increasingly valuable helium, it is undergoing testing at the Naval Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) in PC.
Also, and completely unrelated, is a video the Navy just released on the Mark VI patrol boats, which are mad sexy from a littoral standpoint
