Win a VRX Computer courtesy of VR Technology and
EUROTEK.2010
"Desire a new top of the range
mixed gas diving computer worth over
£1,000? Well now’s your chance to win a
VRX courtesy of VR Technology. Just buy a raffle ticket for
€2.50 and you could be the happy recipient of this latest
addition to the VR Range. The draw will take place at the
EUROTEK.2010 Gala Dinner held at the International
Convention Centre, Broad Street, Birmingham, England on
Saturday 16th October. (For further details check out
www.eurotek.uk.com)
Those of you familiar with the VR3 will
discover the VRX is a lighter smaller model, benefiting from
a rechargeable battery, and comes complete with the PIN
Codes allowing you to dive it as a Trimix Open or Closed
Circuit Computer, and the VGM Algorithm. This unique feature
gives you the opportunity to tailor your decompression to
your needs, ie age, how you are feeling, whether you want to
do deep stops etc.
And if you don’t win this computer, don’t
despair. VR Technology is delighted to announce that they
are offering good deals if you wish to trade in your current/old
diving computer, and it doesn’t need to be a VR3. Any
computers are being accepted. (For further information log
onto
The EUROTEK Team would like to publicly
acknowledge and thank VR Technology for their generosity in
kindly donating a VRX Computer to help support the “The
Rebreather Site” to attend EUROTEK.2010".
Each raffle ticket costs €2.50, or you can buy 5 tickets
for €10.00 and get a free entry! To enter simply send your
Euros using PayPal to
jw.bech@quicknet.nl Please include your name,
address, telephone number and email details.( You can enter
as many times as you like). All funds raised will go to "The
Rebreather Site". This will help the team cover some of
their travel expenses from Holland to Birmingham where they
will display their historical rebreathers and diving
equipment at EUROTEK.2010.
Jan Willem Bech is the
owner of the 'The Rebreather Website' and will
exhibit at EuroTek.10
with his collection of old rebreathers. Jan from the
netherlands will be on hand to pass on rebreather
information to people visiting his stand about
rebreathers in general and will be showing around 25
historic rebreathers including rare examples such as
the French DC55 and the Canadian SIVA as well as his
Pirelli’s which he tells us are worth a fortune……
Jans website was one of the earliest dedicated CCR
sites to spring up on the internet visit his site
here >>
http://www.therebreathersite.nl
Jan Willem Bech started his
addiction to diving in 1989 after an introduction
dive in Dutch waters and he soon became an addict.
His wife Caroline also did the necessary training
and they went on to dive in more than 15 different
countries worldwide.
After he became an instructor he still wanted more
from his diving so in 1999 he started to dive with
rebreathers and realized there was a whole new
exiting diving world out there to be explored. It
was the combination of the technique, adventure and
training that triggered his particular interest.
As the years passed by, Jan spent more and more time
on technical training with his instructor Rob Postma
and then especially with the CCR trimix training in
France with Inspiration inventor Dave Thompson.
Being a full trimix CCR
diver it was possible to undertake some very exiting
diving projects, and one after the other soon
followed! To be able to share his new experiences
and passion he decided to use the Internet and
created www.therebreathersite.nl.
In those days there was not a lot to be found on the
web about rebreathers except on the Internet sites
of Dave Sutton, NW design and Kerry McKenzie.
After he started to document the Inspiration
rebreather a considerably large Internet site
evolved rather rapidly and before long the site
attracted international attention.Inspired by all
the great new contacts the next step to further
develop the Internet site was easily taken. After
trying to bring structure in all the information
about rebreathers, Jan soon discovered that there
were a lot of ways it could be done.
Choices had to be made so he decided
to concentrate on the most simple form of
rebreathers, the pure oxygen ones first. Jan thought
that having documented about 10 to 20 different
models on my Internet site would be it.However,
after 5 years, even he is still surprised that,
after completing an almost daily job of updating
information, you can now find the description and
photographs of 300 (!) oxygen rebreather models on
the site.
For this accomplishment his Internet site was
rewarded as ‘Masterpiece’ by his dive organization,
the NOB (Dutch Underwater Federation), member of
CMAS and sister organization of the
BSAC.Therebreatersite.nl also became part of the
necessary prerequisite requirements to become a 3*
CMAS instructor, so his work was rewarded again.
A next logical step was
to add a database for the Semi-closed and
Closed-circuit rebreathers. However he decided to
use another method for collecting all the
information.Parallel on the website he developed
several pages with several knowledge areas.
By now the SCR and CCR rebreather, but also the
MCCR, areas are now constantly updated. A historical
section is also added but the most recent pages
focus on atmospheric dive suits.
By also keeping Therebreathersite.nl
up to date with all kind of basic main diving
knowledge it’s used daily as a source for
information by training agencies and research
workers. By publishing this treasure of information
Jan has acquired a lot of friends all over the world!
Left: Jan Willem
Bech (left) diving in France
Dave Thompson
with an early Inspiration CCR
Some of them visited him at his home
to share some very interesting conversations into
the long hours of the night. Jan agrees that it
looks like all rebreather divers are obsessed by
their hobby and its not going away!
On his computer he still has a lot of documents
which are ready for future development and
publication. Because of all the contacts worldwide a
lot of rebreathers are presented to him. Today Jan
has a nice collection of old models which to his
utmost pleasure he will present to you at the
Eurotek.10 diveshow; Jan considers this a great
honor to be present at the Eurotek-10 conference!
And a great opportunity to meet all his
correspondence friends from United Kingdom and
surrounding European countries
“OLDIES FROM
THE PAST”, shown at the Hydrogom
Respiratory Equipment Stand at
Eurotek.10
http://www.hydrogom.com
After many years of
diving and snorkeling Jeroen Gompelmans owner of
Hydrogom became more and more interested in every
piece of equipment that was linked to diving and the
techniques it used. As he reached the age of 20 in
1989, he started to collect all kinds of breathing
apparatuses.
It did not take long
before he realized the number of different
types of regulators was huge. Despite this
the complex techniques that were used by
designers and manufacturers from the old
days, fascinated him more than anything.
To get more acquainted with their way of
thinking he started his research on all
kinds of background information that he
could lay his hands on and ended up with one
of the largest collection of regulators, all
also well documented, than ever existed
before.
In March 2001, Hydrogom
Respiratory Equipment was founded with its
main activity to repair and restore all
types of breathing equipment.
But Hydrogom also develops
and manufactures its own techniques like the
CMF valve (Constant Mass Flow valve). For
the design of this valve the Internet site
of Jan Willem Bech
http://www.therebreathersite.nl became a
very useful source of information.
At EuroTek.10 you
can enjoy some of the old top items: the
Loosco FFM, the Scubapro Visionair Mask and
the Mistral CG45.
I hope to meet you all at the Hydrogom stand!
Help us to come to Birmingham
EUROTEK's co-founder
Carl Spencer
EuroTek would not have come into being if it hadn't
been for deep wreck diver Carl Spencer. Sadly on the
24th May 2009 Carl lost his life during a deep 120
metres / 393 feet dive whilst filming HMHS Britannic
on behalf of National Geographic for a television
show. With EuroTek.08 being the first show, there
was an element of doubt as to whether or not this
would ever run again. However the other two
Co-Organisers were lobbied by delegates and the
diving industry, with everyone agreeing that
EuroTek.08 had been such a resounding success that
it would be doubly tragic if EuroTek finished at
this time. The final decision to run EuroTek was
down to Carl's friend, Leigh Bishop, who agreed
that it should go ahead in memory of Carl.
The infamous
EUROTEK Gala Dinner is back by popular demand and tickets
for this will be limited. Along with 'the usual' evenings
entertainment will be a tribute to Carl Spencer".
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