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There was the airline carrier that used the O2 generators on a dive into 
the Everglades a few months back. 

On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Scott Cherf 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.
> 
> 
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