Atomic Workshop

The name Atomic Aquatics has an extremely good reputation in the scene. This was reason enough for Oli and Peter to get detailed advice about the regulators of this company during their stay at the Boot 2010.

The result of the visit was an invitation from Martin Kusche, Managing Director of Atomic Aquatics Europe to Cavebase to meet with him one afternoon and have the Atomic Aquatics regulators explained to us in detail, to disassemble them and to thoroughly examine each part in its function. Prior to the meeting, we received some regulators for testing purposes, which made the rounds among some Cavebaselers. So, with enough questions in our luggage, we traveled to Ulm through a snowstorm in early March.

Peter Gärtner, Tim Löffler, Tobias Petzinger, Manuel Fiore and Fred Petzinger presented themselves as a delegation of the Cavebase as a critical audience with many questions and great interest to a man who you immediately notice that he is at home in diving.

Manuel examining the second stage

After the welcome, Martin started by telling us a bit about the company's history and the idea behind Atomic Aquatics' regulators. Both are connected: Two former developers at Scubapro started their own business with their ideas for regulators. The concept behind it is coherent: A lot of attention was paid to invisible details in order to achieve maximum performance through suitably selected materials and their sensible combinations.

The main difference between the individual controller models lies mainly in the choice of materials (and minor optical differences). Based on the respective application, one can choose the appropriate regulator: from extra light for air travel to extremely durable versions, which are, however, heavier due to special surface coatings.

The second part of our meeting was the Q&A session on the details of the controllers. We discussed the concepts behind the controllers in detail and immediately on the individual parts of the stages. The background of the questions was always the applicability of the controllers for diving as we do it.

For the invisible good details of the controllers two examples are mentioned:

First stage is disassembled into the individual parts

The regulators have numerous other features that have been optimized on the one hand for
durability (Seat Saving Orifice in the second stage, special sealing concept in the valve of the first stage, etc.) and on the other hand on low breathing work. This good breathing work can be confirmed on the one hand by measurements in the laboratory, as well as by our subjective impression while diving. Atomic certainly plays in the top league.

The third part of the event was the revision of the regulators. The service of the regulators as well as the use of the special tools was explained to us and everyone was allowed to overhaul a regulator - no screw connection and no O-ring of the sample regulator remained in its place.

Martin explains the revision of Atomic Aquatics regulators

All in all, a successful afternoon, informative and rewarding for all of us! We were presented with a convincing product that will find its place in the context of cave diving.

A big thank you to Martin, who really took every time to patiently answer our questions. And we had made a mighty mess of his schedule!

As a conclusion remains to say: Martin has really convinced us with the breathing regulators of the company Atomic Aquatics.

In this sense,

Your Cavebase