Deep Dive Discovery: Mike Young - Exclusive Interview with KISS Rebreathers Owner

[@okdiver589]

This is awesome! I am starting to look at rebreathers.

[@TeachMeToDive]

Mike is amazing

[@SeattleRingHunter]

Great interview and we appreciate Mike's openness on where the company KISS is headed. Hopefully the principles of "KISS" will still remain in future designs. We are all watching to see how X-Deep does with the future of the product line. Exciting innovations already surfacing. Great times for modern tech divers as the industry matures and grows with technology.

[@TeachMeToDive]

I would bet, with having Mike still onboard, that it will be awesome still! :)

[@kenmh7357]

Great interview! Thanks!

[@TeachMeToDive]

Thanks

[@davidb5195]

I am a huge fan of kiss rebreathers

[@TeachMeToDive]

they are awesome

[@harambeexpress]

I think it's better to explain mCCRs as "mechanical but simple" because just "mechanical" sounds complex and failure prone to many people who have grown up with computers and electronics and understand and trust them a bit more. The Beauty of a MCCR is that there is so very little in it to go wrong, while an exact still needs many of those parts and then adds some more to fail! The CMF in a mCCR (or hCCR) is literally just a small hole that has some useful physics quirks. The Manual Addition Valves are literally just some metal plungers and a few o-rings just like your regulators. And that's about it. Even if the oxygen sensors that give you your PPO2 readout fail you can still run the unit just by understanding when you should flush the gas and when to add it.

[@TeachMeToDive]

That is a highly valid point of clarification. While we tend to lean toward the "E" solutions, the Mechanical or manual solution is much more bullet proof and solid for sure. The bigger challenge with it though, is the thing goes wrong more often than the mechanics. "THE USER" lol. We are gliding toward an environment in which most divers wouldn't know what to do with a dive table (other than to use it as a coaster or napkin). The desire for simplicity due to not wanting to understand the physics or pay attention is growing every day. I feel that, in most cases, divers are safer going the "E" route and letting Skynet ensure their safety :)

[@Mikesworld777]

Mike is awesome! Can’t wait to see his chest mounted kiss

[@TeachMeToDive]

I think we are all waiting for this :)

[@justinberry9521]

@@TeachMeToDive dive talk go!

[@whitrzac]

I've definitely changed out the starter on the side of the road on a dive trip🤣

[@TeachMeToDive]

No way! That sounds like a ton of fun!

[@whitrzac]

@@TeachMeToDive Hi, I'll be you're DM today. Does anyone have a 14mm socket?

[@TeachMeToDive]

@@whitrzac That is funny, but I thnk we have all had that experience when we needed something from a participant :)

[@adrian.gonzalez77]

Great @mikeyoung8968

[@TeachMeToDive]

Mike is certainly AMAZING!!!