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In a message dated 8/3/98, 4:41:30 PM, heseltine@ea*.ne* writes:

<<Ray - This is hogwash and you know it! Sooner or later we will ALL die
and
so will our machinery. Debating the relative merits of MTBF of your air
computer (whose battery you probably didn't check before the dive), an
SC-RB and OC is not the point. They ALL fail, occasionally. But, you are
changing the subject.
>>

Give me a %^$# break all failures had nothing to do with the battery rather it
started telling me I had twice the gas I had when I started and for your
information it was not an air computer and it was supposed to monitor my
breathing rate as well which it did like shit. The point is not that it is a
computer but that it is a device that contains electronics you moron. And
secondly if they all fail occasionally all the better to not be depending on
them to maintain your PO2.  I would rather die old and dreaming about the
dives I used to do than young and leaving behind a widow.  

Electronics in a circuit are only as good as the components the vendor sends
you and if you think that their quality control is %100 all the time then you
are living in a fantasy world.  Did you sit there and run an oscilloscope on
every component to ensure that it met the specifications that it was supposed.

Having tested power supplies for I.B.M. for several years and having had to
analyze the fallout I still will not bet my life on an electronic circuit.

>>>The fundamental issue, which Geo refuses to address with any logic or
scientific rationale, is why would you believe a guy that tells you that
swallowing a few vitamin pills and doing works outs 'til you have
buns-o'-steel makes you invulnerable to the basic laws of gasses and
physiology?<<<

No the fundamental issue is who will be the next to die on an electronic
rebreather!

Ray LaTulippe





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