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You wrote: > >A couple of weeks ago I was diving with two friends who fly 757's in >real life and we got to talking about rebreathers. After discussing >the basics, one of them asked me why everyone was still using compressed >02 instead of chemical generators. I told him I had no idea there were >such things, and he went on to say that the commercial carriers had >switched from bottles to chemical generators a long time ago because >they were smaller and easier to handle. > >Does anyone out there know anything about these devices, and why no one's >using them for underwater applications? > >Thanks, >Scott. O2 generatrs R indeed available & used on aircraft (remember Value Jet). They R also being considered for medical applications (mainly emergency O2). In diving the problem is supplying the gas under pressure so that diver can breathe. The other factor is purity. The O2 obtained is not 100% pure. None of those R insurmountable & those systems may hold promise, in particular in rebreather applications. Regards Esat Atikkan > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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