Pete,

Get serious! The application of more complex technologies to offset a lack 
of intelligence/common sense/care/training is a ridiculous notion. I've yet 
to hear one valid justification for the average sport diver to engage in 
rebreather diving.

What makes you think that someone who cannot monitor a pressure gauge and 
properly conduct a dive with relatively simple equipment would be safer 
using a mechanically/physiologically more complex piece of equipment? 
Sounds like those people shouldn't be diving at all! - Tony


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Subject: Re: 10 Best @ Rebreather 2.0
Author:  heseltin@hs*.us*.ed* at EXTERNAL
Date:    10/2/96 3:24 PM

Reading the DAN and British fatality reports, a large number are directly 
or indirectly due to out-of-gas events. Either people underestimate their 
gas needs or exceed them due to exertion, emergency, getting lost etc. 
Then they either die (no gas), or go to the surface without meeting their 
deco obligation and are injured.

Rebreathers truly give the opportunity to largely avoid being in an 
out-of-gas situation. Sure they can have a catastropic failure. But 
equipment failure is not usually what kills divers; it's being too close 
to your maximum gas supply, even using the rule of thirds or fifths.

-ph

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