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EuroTek 2008 Technical Innovation Award

An award for Technical Innovation
An Advanced or Technical Diving Innovation that has enabled you to further your diving or made your diving safer
The winner of the 2008 'Technical Innovation award' went to Martin Parker and Ambient Pressure diving for the Inspiration and Evolution Closed Circuit Rebreathers.

As with all of the prestigious EuroTek Tek diving awards; the Award for Technical Innovation had been voted for by the delegates of Eurotek, however this more than any other category saw an almost unanimous decision.
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The equipment and principles have been around for years, even pre-dating the aqualung, however it took advances in technology and manufacturing techniques married with a company headed by an open minded and forward thinking Managing Director to make the product of Inspiration rebreather commercially viable to the masses. Previously divers literally took their lives in their hands as they built and tested their home built variants of rebreather equipment.

With a proven track record, backed up by solid scientific data, there is no doubt the Inspiration rebreather has more dive time than any of it’s contemporaries and no doubt enabled many divers to achieve a string records which has over the past decade advanced exploration in huge leaps.
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No single item of diving equipment had polarised the diving community in such a dramatic way. There are those that believe there is no place in recreational diving for such an insidious devices such as CCR's and the discipline required to use this equipment that they say is inherently dangerous and irresponsible. Despite this and facing sometimes strong criticism the Inspiration continued to gain a dedicated following and with the manufacturers support, several high profile Expeditions had realised their goals previously thought logistically out of reach could be achieved; With the Inspiration he Closed Circuit Rebreather had arrived.

Described by many as the most significant advance in SCUBA diving since invention of the Aqualung by Cousteau in the ‘50s the Eurotek 2008 award for Technical Diving Innovation went to Martin Parker of APD for the Inspiration and Evolution Closed Circuit Rebreather.

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