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Send in your old Octopus, any age any model from any manufacturer, Get the Oceanic Air XS regulator/inflator combination for a special Trade in price, call us at 800.637.6880.
When you took dive lessons you learned to perform specific skills to make you safe and comfortable underwater and at the surface. One of those skills was buoyancy control. Once you start diving for fun you use your buoyancy control devise constantly throughout the dive. Your Octopus or Alternate Air Source devise on the other hand is never used unless there is an Emergency Out of Air Situation. Reacting properly in an Out of Air Situation can make the difference between an eventful dive and a tragedy. If your alternate air source and your BCD inflator devise are one and the same you will always know where to find it in an emergency. The Air XS 2 is two devises in one - an extra second stage and a power inflator. Since it's at the end of your BCD inflator hose, it's always easy to find. Using the Air XS 2 is simple. Pressing the oblong blue button inflates your BC; pressing the round blue purge button expels water from the extra second stage so you can breathe from it. To infl ate or deflate the BCD manually, use the button at the very end of the unit. Weighing 7.9 ounces, the Air Xs has a compact yet sturdy housing less than four inches in diameter. It can be used with nitrox mixtures up to 40 percent.
When you took dive lessons you learned to perform specific skills to make you safe and comfortable underwater and at the surface. One of those skills was buoyancy control. Once you start diving for fun you use your buoyancy control devise constantly throughout the dive. Your Octopus or Alternate Air Source devise on the other hand is never used unless there is an Emergency Out of Air Situation. Reacting properly in an Out of Air Situation can make the difference between an eventful dive and a tragedy. If your alternate air source and your BCD inflator devise are one and the same you will always know where to find it in an emergency. The Air XS 2 is two devises in one - an extra second stage and a power inflator. Since it's at the end of your BCD inflator hose, it's always easy to find. Using the Air XS 2 is simple. Pressing the oblong blue button inflates your BC; pressing the round blue purge button expels water from the extra second stage so you can breathe from it. To infl ate or deflate the BCD manually, use the button at the very end of the unit. Weighing 7.9 ounces, the Air Xs has a compact yet sturdy housing less than four inches in diameter. It can be used with nitrox mixtures up to 40 percent.
Does the job
By Speedy
from Central FL on 7/8/2009
from Central FL on 7/8/2009
Cons:
Uncomfortable Mouthpiece
Best Uses:
Eliminating Hoses, Last Resort
Describe Yourself:
Advanced Diver
Diving Type:
Open Water Diving
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Comments about Oceanic Oceanic Air XS Lower Unit Only with Quick Disconnect Hose:
"Ask the Pro" says this will fit a Cressi but I had to reposition and play with the tie wrap a few times to get it where it would not leak. Functional but not comfortable to use but then again, it's there as a back up, not a primary. One less hose!
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Works well
By joe destin from destin on 7/31/2007
from destin on 7/31/2007
Pros:
Comfortable
Cons:
Configeration problems, Poor Design
Best Uses:
Recreation
Describe Yourself:
Divemaster
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Comments about Oceanic Oceanic Air XS Lower Unit Only with Quick Disconnect Hose:
The unit works well, but there is a configeration problem to some BCD's. I had to adapt a scuba-pro hose to my Zeagle to get it to work.