Explorer News

Just a few shots follow, and anyone who has ever looked at my other teardowns ought to recognize my bench.

Highlights:

• Green and red flappers for port and starboard.
• Clip to access flappers without tools after rotating fitting 120 degrees to allow clip to be removed.
• Coaxial feed hoses to/from 02 leaky valve/man add valve assy.
• HUGE P-Connectors for everything, with double buttons.
• Serrated CL fittings mesh into serrations in chassis to hold the CL’s from turning when the fittings are installed.
• Excellent racks for bottle attachment with cam bands.
• Stainless steel plate on the bottom of the chassis for strength and rigidity.
• Loop design allows a HUGE water trap in the exhale CL and drains for both CL’s.
• Flappers in bottom of CL’s *in addition to the pull dumps* so you cannot fill the CL’s with water when trying to dump them.
• Slots in chassis for any harness desired. BOV uses off the shelf regulator parts.

What else? Pimp your APOC with the first after market shoulder pod from Narked@90 to add your Shearwater and HUD or whatever.

Yes the pods work, and no I’m not going to use them to start open wreck water diving with the rig. I change one thing at a time and a completely new chassis is enough for now. Let me get 25 dives on it with the Shearwater and then I’ll play with the new pods and document them fully.

Friends are invited to visit the LDSOH anytime, to join me at the quarry to play, or to some offshore to watch me dive it. I’ll have it on the boat on Thanksgiving for our annual Turkey-Day Dive, weather permitting.