Welcome to DIRrebreather

Standardisation and Team Diving with Closed-Circuit Rebreathers? Impossible!

The Technical Diving Community is quite familiar with the Doing It Right philosophy. In diving, it means having:

The right Mindset
The right Equipment
The right Procedures

... and the right Team!

Closed-Circuit rebreather Divers before a Trimix dive

By applying this set of rules and techniques, divers have explored caves, wrecks and reefs in various environment all over the world, with impressive safety records. But they did it with conventional Open Circuit SCUBA or RB80 Semi-Closed Circuit Rebreathers. Many divers consider that something similar for Closed-Circuit Rebreather divers is impossible.

As a matter of fact:

How many times did you see Rebreather divers with poor diving skills, bad propulsion techniques and unefficient buoyancy control?
Their rebreather is far from streamlined and their gear configuration can easily be improved.
The procedures they follow are complex and different for each diver, even within the same team.
And everything becomes even more difficult in case of emergency or rescue...

The work done by our team proves that standardisation is also possible with CCRs. Proper training, thorough planning, equipment selection and adaptation can help the rebreather diver to be an efficient team member. Standardisation helps to make simpler and safer dives, avoiding confusion and improving team work and communication, especially when problems occur. Our procedures make mixed-team diving (OC, SCR and CCR divers) a safe option.

All DIRrebreather Active members and Instructors work on CCR gear and procedures standardization. Based on some extensive cave and wreck explorations, and physiological studies, we try to adapt the most current thoughts in decompression into Rebreather diving. We also have the goal to help rebreather divers to improve their personal skills and techniques through articles, DVDs, manuals and specific Workshops. We just released two manuals written by Cedric Verdier, one about Nitrox rebreather Diving, the second one about Mixed-Gas Trimix Rebreather. We also published Workbooks for some of the workshops we propose (Fundamentals, Rescue, DPV, Overhead Environment, etc).

DIRrebreather is not a training agency. The DIRrebreather team is made of experienced and active Rebreather explorers and instructors who share the same goal: Making Rebreather Diving safer by implementing common sense, standards and DIR Philosophy into Rebreather diving.

If you are a Closed-Circuit Rebreather Diver (Inspiration, Evolution, Megalodon, Sport KISS, Classic KISS, COPIS Meg, Ouroboros, Sentinel, PRISM Topaz, Dive-Rite O2ptima, Titan, Cis-Lunar, MKxx, Homebuilt, etc) who wants to support or join us, please visit the Membership page. Then share your experience and ask your questions on our Member-only forum.

You want more information!

Download our brochure.
Download: "10 questions about DIRrebreather" (also available in russian).
Come to see us at the Annual DIRrebreather Conference.
Contact us by email or snail mail. Check on the Contact Page.

DIR rebreather Brochure about Standards, Training and Safety