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Presenter
Martin Parker
Martin Parker, the MD of Ambient Pressure ( the British company
that designs and builds the successful and award winning Evolution
and Inspiration closed circuit rebreathers) Diving was the guy
that “put his money where his mouth was”, he had
the technical diving capability, the vision, the development
& manufacturing experience and most importantly –
the cash, to drive the Inspiration CCR through to production,
something which large and small manufacturers had failed to
do over previous decades. First sold |
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in November 1997. Martin’s
experience with European Diving Standards and experience with
unmanned test facilities across the World ensured that they
got the basics right first time and now he runs one of the most
modern, technically advanced, life support test facilities in
the World.
Martin learned to dive in 1974, taking the technical route in
1994. He was the first diver to use the Inspiration CCR on Trimix
and now very rarely uses any other form of diving equipment.
Martin regularly dives his own units and being based in Cornwall,
England he often takes time out to explore virgin ship wrecks
locally often in depths that require mixed gas and technical
diving techniques. Martin was a key member of the History Channel
Britannic expedition in 2006 which was led by Richie Kohler
& John Chatterton. During this expedition Martin shot film
at depths of 120m which was broadcast during the final documentary,
and later then used in another documentary that examined both
sister ships Britannic & Titanic. This team used AP Diving
inspiration & Evolution units with in water Ocean times
of over 7 hours to accomplish what was required on the seabed. |
Above: Martin Parker surfacing after
a dive on the Kingsbridge shipwreck that sank to a depth of 90m
in 1874 in the English Channel (photo by Leigh Bishop)
| As stated he is also the managing director of A P Valves,
(manufacturers of the Buddy range of buoyancy compensators)
Martin developed the Buddy range of jackets as well as some
of the associated valving, and was the money and drive behind
the development of the Inspiration CCR, now in it's 11th year
of manufacture and the first CCR to reach the mass sport diving
market. |
Above: Martin Parker (left)
preparing to dive the Britannic shipwreck in 2006 (photo by
Leigh Bishop) |
| In 2005, the simple "control the oxygen
only" electronics of the Inspiration CCR evolved in to
the Vision electronics that, yet again, established the new
"cross-bar". Featuring simple fibre optic head up
displays and the first working system for monitoring scrubber
life, a system which automatically compensates for work rate,
water temperature, depth, different scrubber materials, part-used
scrubber materials and still gives warnings in advance of CO2
breakthrough. |
Inspiration rebreathers on the production line
at the AP factory in Cornwall England |
He represents the UK at the European diving equipment standard
meetings and has been involved in the EN250 Regulator Standard
right through to the latest EN14143 Rebreather Standard - acknowledged
by equipment manufacturers as being one of the toughest Standards.
A very keen underwater photographer who has managed to win the
Humorous Section of "On the day" competitions, (achieving
First Place for four years, and Second Place winner twice) he
admits that he simply has the idea, but then has to ask a real
photographer what settings to use on the camera! "I always
feel embarrassed when they ask me what settings I used on the
camera as the reply is virtually always the same - "Program
mode, auto focus then I played around with the flash settings
and took lots of photos!" |
Martin Parkers company AP Diving will be exhibiting at EuroTek for
more information about AP Diving and the Inspiration / Evolution closed
circuit rebreathers visit www.apdiving.com
Martin Parker was the winner of the 2008 EuroTek Innovation
award more information>> |
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