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Halcyon Multifunction Compensators

Regardless of whether you are diving at 30 feet on a coral reef, 130 feet in a wreck or at 300 feet in a cave, the key elements to diving are the same. Having an enjoyable dive remains the goal while good buoyancy, proper trim, suitable weighting, efficient propulsion and integrated life support are the fundamental skills that support safe and enjoyable diving. Halcyon's Multifunction Compensator, the heart of this unique diving system, is specifically designed to give divers a distinct advantage in these critical areas.

Buoyancy:
The Halcyon MC System adjusts to every type of diving with the selection of the proper buoyancy and weighting system. Buoyancy compensation is available in both Eclipse and Pioneer systems specifically designed to maximize single tank efficiency while three sizes of Explorer wings complement double tank streamlining.

Weighting:
The MC System incorporates the use of detachable and non-detachable weight, adjusted specifically for each diver. The stainless backplate provides six pounds of non-detachable weight evenly disbursed across the diver's back. Alternatively, divers may choose the aluminum backplate when additional weight is not necessary.

The Halcyon ACB Weighting System now comes in sizes ranging from 12 pounds (six per side) to 30 pounds of detachable weight while V-Weights and Keel Weights are available for additional weight customization.

Trim:
The Halcyon MC System controls trim through the combination of weight distribution and stability offered by the 5-point Secure Harness. Removing weight from the waist not only prevents a sore lower back, but also shifts the center of gravity up to the central torso and facilitates a streamlined horizontal profile in the water. Proper trim is essential to reducing swimming effort and gas consumption, making dives easier and more enjoyable.

Propulsion:
The Halcyon MC System is designed to significantly reduce the effort required to move through the water not only by establishing proper trim, but also by reducing drag on the diver.

Merely doubling the surface area of one's BC results in a resistance that is four times as great and requires nearly sixteen times more energy to move through the water. The Halcyon MC System reduces drag by minimizing the diver's frontal area, resulting in greater efficiency and ease of diving.

Life Support:
The MC System provides divers with an integrated life support solution that accommodates a variety of emergency and utility lift devices. Signaling, lifting, and surface flotation can be stored "transparently" within the MC System Storage Pak.

The Halcyon Secure Harness allows for infinite adjustability, providing a perfect fit for all divers and diving systems. Men or women diving wet or dry will find the Secure Harness is without question the most stable and well-fitted design in the industry.

Halcyon Secure Harness System

The Halcyon Secure Harness® allows for infinite adjustability, providing a perfect fit for all divers and diving systems. Men or women diving wet or dry will find the Secure Harness is without question the most stable and well-fitted design in the industry.

Backplate

Single Tank Adaptors
 

Harness Pocket
 

Halcyon Alternate Lift Devices
 

Lift devices are essential tools for all diving activities ranging from recreational drift and salvage diving to signaling and emergency flotation. Yet another unique Halcyon feature includes the flexible manner in which a variety of lift devices can be integrated into the Halcyon MC system, emphasizing diver safety and comfort. Halcyon's Supra® closed circuit lift bag, Surf Shuttle®, and/or Diver Alert Markers belong on every drift, shore or wreck dive.

These devices are essential as diving tools or life support devices and can each be used separately, or seamlessly integrated into the Halcyon MC system. All innovative Halcyon lift devices make excellent signaling devices on the surface and can be utilized as supplemental flotation devices at depth.

The Diver's Life Raft® and Surf Shuttle® are essential safety devices for any dive where currents or distance could create a life-threatening separation from the dive boat.

From Cozumel to the Great Barrier Reef, divers are at great risk should they become separated from their dive boat. Including an alternative lift device like the Halcyon Diver's Life Raft is true life insurance for the DIR ocean diver.

Halcyon lift devices are designed for minimum storage size and maximum efficiency. Store your alternative lift device in a MC Storage Pak, in a thigh pocket, or on a rear D-ring. Transparent to the diver while stored, but easily deployed should the need arise.

Halcyon Helios & Proteus Lighting Systems

Since their introduction to the Halcyon product line in 2002, our Helios® NiMH canister lights have become the new standard for underwater illumination. The advantages of NiMH have allowed Halcyon's design team to realize improvements that border on science fiction-- but are solidly based on today's technologies.

Canister size has been reduced dramatically: the Helios 4.5 is not much larger than a D-cell flashlight, and the Apollo 200w HMI underwater studio light is now driven by a canister only slightly larger than our old Explorer Pro 6. The Helios 13 has been fitted with our new 10w HID light head at the request of explorers pushing the limits of cave exploration in Mexico-- we would never have believed that divers would request a primary light with a 12 hour burn time! The stronger-than-steel Delrin canisters are a work of art; although we rate the lights to five hundred feet/152 meters, the canister itself has a theoretical depth rating of several thousand feet.

Helios Features

Proteus® Lighting Systems
Several months into the testing of the Helios lights, Jarrod looked over at an Explorer Pro 14 on the shelf and exclaimed that he couldn't believe that he'd spent so many years lugging such a large canister to the far reaches of the world. It is obvious that the rest of the diving world agrees: for extended range and exploration diving, the Helios made the Explorer Pro series obsolete.

The stalwart Explorer Pro series has been retired from the Halcyon catalog. Although the Explorer Pro 14 will still be available by special order, the Explorer Pro 3, 4, and 6 lights are no longer in the Halcyon line-up. For divers who want a traditional sealed lead acid battery design, Halcyon now offers both the Proteus 3 and Proteus 6 canister lights. Designed as our entry level 10w HID system, the Proteus 3 provides a generous two hour burn time with a slim form factor. The Proteus 6 lights are available with multiple lamp configurations, but with the 18w HID it burns for two hours and is our most affordable high performance cave and wreck system. Proteus canisters are milled to exacting tolerances from a new high performance plastic that allows us to eliminate the bulkhead on the battery pack.

All Halcyon Lights come standard with the following:

Handle Options
All Goodman handle-based lightheads are available with optional cold water or exploration handles. The coldwater handle has an extra-large to accommodate the use of dry gloves. The exploration handle includes a thumb-holder for use while scootering and a handle-mounted mini-knife.

18 watt HID Lighthead
Halcyon's workhorse light, the 18watt HID, allows full adjustability and easy bulb changes in a conventional test tube style design. Light output is similar to a 75watt halogen light at a fraction of the power consumption.

10 watt HID Lighthead
Where innovation meets practicality. Halcyon's fully closed light head (patent pending) provides divers with a nearly indestructible light head that is able to be adjusted from a laser-like beam to a diffuse soft light with the mere twist of a dial.

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