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12/25/2025

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2026 to all our friends and family 🎄🎁🍾🥂🥳

11/15/2024

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12/25/2023

Steam Machines wishes all our friends and family a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year ⛄🍾🥂🎊🥳

09/19/2023

Wishing Pete a very Happy 64th Birthday 🥳🎂🥂🍾

Couldn't get him to play any Beatles tunes 😈 but here's an oldie of his own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtY06lfRqs&t=21s

05/11/2023

Happy 30th Birthday PRISM

Once dubbed the “Johnny Appleseed of Rebreathers” Peter Readey was a ubiquitous figure in the early pre-CCR days of technical diving. He would show up with a couple of his early, home-built, PRISM semi-closed rebreathers, and treat interested tekkies to try-dives in hopes they would one day orde...

12/24/2022

Wishing all our friends and family a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous Happy New Year 🥳🍾🥂🎉

05/24/2022

Very well deserved :-)

05/20/2022

This was taken in 1997 by our friend and photographer Bo Mulder. It's Jim Brown diving an early SMI PRISM CCR prototype, which later became the PRISM Topaz. This was just after we'd parted with Cochran and before we worked with Carleton. It has the electronics in an aluminum head with brass access port, the counterlungs were the early DUI split neoprene ones with elbows, not T's for the mouthpiece hoses and the very versatile variable control second stage style auto diluent addition on the divers right inside counterlung wall.

12/24/2021

To All our SMI Friends and Family we wish you a
Very Merry Christmas ⛄ and a Happy and Healthy 2022 🥂

09/19/2021

Wishing Peter a very Happy Birthday🥳
To celebrate I found this beautiful photo by John Bantin which he surprised Peter with on his 40th. It shows Peter wearing an early SCR PRISM in the Red Sea (November 1994) being filmed by Malory Maltby for Underwater Adventures shown on Anglia TV in the UK. John was training and writing his article "I have seen the Future and it Works" for UK's Diver Magazine. My favorite part of the show is the the closing credits as Peter swims away, singing I'm forever blowing bubbles! Wonderful memories and great friends - Thanks!

08/10/2021

Preparing for the first SMI CCR class in LA early 1998, using MK15.5's and analog PRISM CCR's, the first Topaz's. This was the only class run out of Redondo Beach, we moved into the facility on Cypress Ave, Hermosa Beach shortly after.
It was an evenly split class, two west (Mike and Ron) and two east (Bill and Mitch) coast divers, with Pete in the middle :-) Merle kindly volunteered his services as assistant. (Photo's without Sharon are by Sharon Readey. Pre-dive photo from Readey archive)

07/09/2021

July 1995 was very special for us as it marked our move to the USA to pursue development and manufacture of the PRISM.
Excerpt from upcoming article "... in July 1995 on a trip through the USA, we teamed up with Michael Cochran of Cochran Consulting Inc, a deal was struck and we stayed with four suitcases filled mostly with rigs. Mike had been one of Texas Instruments most prolific inventors,....... split off a daughter company to make dive computers. Here was a company with advanced electronics that could help to move rebreather technology forward. Everyone put in extra effort to get a completely redesigned PRISM CCR prototype to the DEMA 1996 Show, working through Christmas and New Year to make sure it was ready. The electronic fully closed circuit PRISM did it’s first test dive on December 3rd, 1995, spending an hour and a half at a maximum depth of 18ft."
Photo of Peter Readey in the prototype at Ginnie Springs taken by Wes Skiles from Readey archive.