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Essential Equipment, Octopuses
Same excellent breathing characteristics as the SR1 with distinguishable front cover and highly visible yellow hose, the SR1 utilizes a pneumatically balanced second stage.
The second stage contains a SMART demand lever and floating crown which reacts to depressurization and relieves the load on the seat, extending seat life while promoting consistent performance. Importantly, the second stage employs a unique single adjustment point to simultaneously set opening effort and high flow performance with one motion; the need to make separate adjustment therefore been eliminated.
The size of the SR1 control knob has also been optimized to enable easy location and operation, even for a diver wearing gloves. Most Octopus regulators are de-tuned to a higher valve opening effort which can be stressful in an out-of-air situation, with the adjustment knob, there regulator can be quickly adjusted to breathe as a primary regulator within a breaths time adding safety to an emergency.
The second stage contains a SMART demand lever and floating crown which reacts to depressurization and relieves the load on the seat, extending seat life while promoting consistent performance. Importantly, the second stage employs a unique single adjustment point to simultaneously set opening effort and high flow performance with one motion; the need to make separate adjustment therefore been eliminated.
The size of the SR1 control knob has also been optimized to enable easy location and operation, even for a diver wearing gloves. Most Octopus regulators are de-tuned to a higher valve opening effort which can be stressful in an out-of-air situation, with the adjustment knob, there regulator can be quickly adjusted to breathe as a primary regulator within a breaths time adding safety to an emergency.
[1 of 1 customers found this review helpful]
Very nice octopus
By walt from Phoenix Arizona on 6/2/2010
Pros:
Reliable
Best Uses:
Last Resort
Describe Yourself:
Advanced
Diving Type:
Open Water Diving
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Comments about Sherwood Sherwood SR1 Octopus, Yellow hose:
Very nice regulator. I like the fact that you can detune it for emergency use only. This reduces free flow possibilities.
[0 of 7 customers found this review helpful]
Get Real
By DiveJack from Phoenix on 4/12/2010
Pros:
Comfortable Mouthpiece, Does Not Leak, Easy To Connect, Easy To Retrieve, Easy To Use, Reliable
Cons:
Gets In The Way
Best Uses:
As Primary
Describe Yourself:
Professional
Diving Type:
Open Water Diving
Bottom Line:
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Comments about Sherwood Sherwood SR1 Octopus, Yellow hose:
This is a great breathing Octo and would be a better primary than octo. The price is way to high for an octo. I would not recommend this at that price.