32 - Sunday, July 19, 1992 — North Shore News

Breathing life into diving

A NORTH Vancouver mechanical engineer has developed
a device that provides a surface supply of compressed air

for shallow-water diving.

Keith Collyer, president of The
Atlantic Engineering Co. Lid.,
developed the C-Breathe floating
battery air supply system over a
four-year period.

Collyer says the product has
generated a lot of interest for use
in tropical waters, for example
during coral reef exploration and
tropical fish watchirg.

He anticipates that most sales
will go to sport divers, diving
resort operators and boaters.

He already has distributors in
place in Fiji and Western
Australia.

“I’m taking it slowly and build-
ing it Up to a steady rate of pro-
duction,”’ he said.

The idea for the product came
to Collyer when he owned «
sailboat. He challenged himself to

. find a more convenient way to get
under a boat to maintain it.

With scuba gear, time in the
water is limited by the capacity of
an oxygen tank.

“With this system there are no
heavy tanks or you — you just
jump into the water,”’ he said.

Michael

HIGH TECH

Collyer has developed three
models of the product:
@ 150-D sits on a boat deck;
@ the 150 floating model is good
for depths of up to 15 feet;
@ the 200 mode? floats and is

good for depths of up to 25 feet.
Collyer recommends users of

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the system have scuba training
from a business such as Mako
Sport Divers in North Vancouver.

The three major components of
the device are a battery, a com-
pressor and a motor.

Air is pulled into the system
through an intake filter. ir is
compressed and pumped into an
air reservoir.

The user inhales the air through
a demand regulator attached to a
length of reinforced polyester-
lined breathing hese.

Collyer initially projects the

‘ focal manufacture of 20 units per

month.

The B.C. Science Counci! sup-
posted the early stagé of project
with $25,000 worth of funding.
Collyer also received an interest-
free loan from the Western Diver-
sification Program.

“I knew there was a market for
it. In the early stage I had to trust
my own sixth sense,” he said.

For more information, call The
Atlantic Engineering Co. at 980-

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