Simon Campbell
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My personal dive and boat kit
All dives
- Oceanic ‘Shadow’ mask with neoprene strap
VR Technology Limited Sentinel rebreather
- MOD3 trimix enabled unit with offboard gas kit and customised harness. Maximum operating depth 100m.
Open water kit for use with singles and twins
- Halcyon stainless steel backplate
- Halcyon 1L steel suit inflation bottle, tactile knob and fabric bands
- APEKS DS4 first stage with pressure relief valve and hose for suit inflation
- APEKS DS4 fitted with APEKS Submersible Pressure Gauge, APEKS ATX 200 second stage and 60cm MIFLEX Xtreme hose
- APEKS DS4 fitted with APEKS ATX 200 second stage, 210cm MIFLEX Xtreme hose and 54cm MIFLEX Xtreme wing inflation hose
Single cylinder rig
- Halcyon Eclipse 30 wing
- Halcyon weighted single tank adaptor with flat disk nuts
- 2 × 12L Faber steel cylinders, UNDERSEA valves fitted with tactile knobs and cylinder boots
- 1 × 10L Faber steel cylinders, UNDERSEA valves fitted with tactile knobs and cylinder boots
Twin set rig
- Halcyon Evolve 40 wing
- 2 × 12L Faber steel cylinders with OMS stainless steel bands, flat disk nuts and cylinder boots
- UNDERSEA pillar valve and manifold system with tactile knobs
Stage cylinders
- 2 x Luxfer 7L cylinders with MDE pillar valves (dedicated to 50% & 100%)
- 1 x Luxfer 11.1L (80cf) brushed aluminium stage cylinder with MDE valve
- 3 x Halcyon stage kits with cold water piston clips
- 3 x APEKS DS4 with APEKS Submersible Pressure Gauge and ATX 50 second stage fitted with 100cm MIFLEX Xtreme hoses.
On all open water dives
- DUI CF200 Signature drysuit with Halcyon balanced P-valve, 2 x large bellows pockets, kevlar kneepads, neoprene neck seal, latex ‘zipseals’, dry-gloves with zipseals and rockboots
- Spare single lens mask
- DUI warm neck hood
- Pair Fourth Element ‘Proteus’ 5mm gloves
- Fourth Element ‘Arctic’ undersuit with additional layer of xerotherm if necessary (cold water)
- Two pairs of Fourth Element technical underpants (vital kit to prevent chafing)
- Pair SANTI polar socks
- Pair SealSkinz marino wool sock liner
- Pair SealSkinz waterproof thermal merino sock
- GreenForce F2 umbilical torch with HID 100 ‘Compact’ head and Lumb brothers fabric ‘Goodman’ handle
- GreenForce Diamond-plus LED backup torch
- 3 x XXL Turtle fins with Halcyon spring straps
- Delta-P VR3 with full mixed gas and CCR unlocking
- UWATEC Dive timer with bungee modfication
- Suunto wrist compass with bungee modification
- Halcyon coldwater defender spool
- Halcyon big alert marker DSMB with divesigns.com SOLAS name sticker
- Buddy self seal DSMB with divesigns.com SOLAS name sticker
- Aquatech yellow CO2 powered self inflating DSMB with divesigns.com SOLAS name sticker
- Buddy Jon/buddy line with ‘v’ clamp
- 2 x prussic loops
- 2 x double end piston clips
- Halcyon titanium knife or 1 x trauma sheers
- Halcyon Pathfinder 50m reel
- Halcyon wetnotes (with mirror and emergency tables)
- 4 x Pilot ‘Croquis’ propelling pencils (B)
Pool Training kit
- Buddy Slimline BCD
- Scubapro regulator set
- Scubapro JetFins with Halcyon Spring straps
- Circle one shortie
- Snorkel
- Ancient weight belt with 2Kg lead (to remain neutrally buoyant whilst snorkelling)
- 10L Faber cylinder with Beaver twin outlets and tactile knobs
In the spares box
- Mares X-vision mask with Oceanic neoprene mask strap
- Custom Divers 50m pocket ratchet reel
- Custom Diver 70m ratchet reel
- Halcyon spool (warm water)
- Spare ‘wetnotes’ pads
- Latex seals, Aquasure, Aquaseal, Cotol hardner, bladder/wing repair kit, Black witch neoprene adhesive
- O2 compatible grease & Dow Corning Molykote 111 release agent (silicone grease)
- UNDERSEA full O-ring kit
- Drysyuit inflater/dump valves, Halcyon corrugated hose with power inflater
- Sentinel ‘seals’ kit, spare counter-lung
Underwater survey
- 50m plastic tape measure
- Large waterproof crayon
- Beaver large slate
- Hultafors collapsible ruler
- Spirit level
- Planning frame with adjustable legs
- 5 Litre buoy
- McMahon classic reel
- Piles of plastic survey tags
Blending
- Buddy 1m decanting whip with button gauge and valve
- 2m UNDERSEA O2 blending whip with digital gauge
- UNDERSEA 6300 personal filter with one way valve and spare filter assembly
- ANALOX ATA Trimix analizer with DIN flow regulator
- ANALOX O2E11 Nitrox Analizer
Indispensable kit
- iCom IC-M71 VHF marine transceiver
- Steiner Navigator pro binoculars (with compass)
- Casio waterproof (5 bar) stop watch
- Peli 1511 waterproof case (aka the ‘black box of doom’)
- Watershed Dry-bag
- iPhone 3G with ‘World Tides, TriMix tools Convertbot and V-planner applications
- SealSkinz waterproof thermal merino gloves
- SealSkinz marino wool glove liner
- Triton Oceanic / SLAM winter sailing jacket
- Fourth Element Xerotherm XT250 hat
- Dickies waterproof rigger boots
- Crewsafe 150N Lifejackets
- Bowstone divers flag (yellow)
- Fully stocked first aid kit
- Fully stocked medicine kit
- Leatherman Charge TTi with extra tools (lovely engineering)
- DAN Oxygen First Aid Kit with ‘Index Pin’ / DIN / Bullnose converter for use with bigger cylinders in Peli 1520 case
- Powermonkey Explorer solar power charger kit (very cool)
Chartwork, boating & surveying kit
- Multiple Admiralty Charts
- Admiralty chart 5011
- REEDS Nautical almanac
- Pentel propelling pencil with 2B lead
- Captain Fields pattern parallel rules
- Portland speed/time/distance calculator
- Platismo Iris 50 hand bearing compass
- Portland course plotter
- Jakar metal edged ruler
- Jakar compass set
- Jakar beam compass
- Jakar 1:20 scale rule
- Jakar set square
- XM Yachting ocean jacket
- XM Yachting ocean salopettes
- Myerchin A377P offshore crew knife – serrated blade
