Come on , Richie - you and I both know what the real problems are, and they 
don't go away until the laws of physics change, and in the last 48 years they 
have not. You know a lot about rebreathers, so tell us why the commercial ones 
work and the others don't. 

On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.ha*.or*> wrote:
>
>> Scuba has evolved to become quite easy to learn and practice. The dive
>> equipment for scuba is extremely reliable, and durable.  Most of it works
>> no matter how badly it is treated.  The same is not true for our
>> rebreathers, as you know.
>
>I think Mike's point was (correct me if I'm wrong, Mike) that if you give 
>rebreathers another 50 years, like SCUBA has had to get to the level it 
>is today, then it might follow the same popularity path.  On the other 
>hand, you're point is a good one, that rebreathers will probably always 
>require a higher level to conceptual understanding to operate.  But is 
>that a bad thing?  The way I see it, today's average SCUBA diver is WAY 
>underqualified to be a SCUBA diver.  I applauded IANTD's intorductory 
>nitrox course (taking non-divers and training them straight through to 
>nitrox) because it's a course that teaches divers the things that *ALL* 
>divers should have been taught in the first place.
>
>Aloha,
>Rich
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