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Tell me all about rebreather diving you moron. Scatsta wrote: > > Katherine V. Irvine wrote: > > > > Scatssa - you need to wake up. The thing does not work, it is a copy of > > a copy of a failed design that has long since been discovered and > > corrected. There have been SIX incidents REPORTED, THREE DEATHS, and you > > want to argue. The machine is a piece , needs to be recalled, and needs > > to be discontinued. The perpetrators need to be jailed, in my opinion. > > > > Sorry old boy, I beg to differ. The deaths have to stop, yes, but as far > as the Inspiration is concerned there has been no indication of > electronics failure so far. > > The problem (IMHO) is peoples attitude to diving with rebreathers. A lot > of people consider rebreather diving as a continuation of their diving > career. Done Nitrox done trimix wots next, oh yeah, rebreathers. Others > that it's an easy way to extended bottom times. Agencies who do weekend > rebreather courses have a lot to answer for. > > Rebreather diving is parallel to oc diving. Both going the same way but > totaly seperate skills. A 1000 dive oc diver is back to square one the > moment he straps on a rb, a novice. New skills to learn, new and more > complicated equipment to maintain. This cannot be learnt in a w/end. Its > going to take months. > > I fly gliders (ok, sailplanes to you lot across the pond :-) ). I have > getting on for 700hrs and fly in the UK National Championships. You > can't tell me anything about flying - got the picture? OK so what if I > wanted to start power flying. Same thing innit? 'cept with an engine. If > I was to take a w/end course I would soon end up at the bottom of a > smoking hole. It would take many flying hours and more exams to become > qualified and I would still be a newbie. I wouldn't even be able to add > to my 700hrs as I would have a new log book starting with a big fat zero > (hrs) > > Rebreather diving is the same. Irrespective of how many oc dives you > have done you are a novice and novices don't dive to 20m after 2 days > training. > > The training agencies have got to get to grips with this, and quick. I > have a feeling rebreathers are here to stay. > > Kevin Pickering (not Scatsta.Thats a little place in the Shetland > Isles) > kevpix@gl*.co*.uk* > > > The perpetrators are low riders enough to call the divers > > "incompetent". They died on that machine, following that training and > > that certification. > > > > I am tired of hearing little quips from anonomous yaps who want to be > > fair to the Reaper. You need to start telling the truth. These machines > > have another fifty horror stories of failed electronics, they are > > basiscly unusable by those who bought them, and it is time they all came > > forward and threw this crowd under the bus . > > > > The only difference bewteeen this thing and the other similar fakes and > > copies of failed nonsense is that they are more widely distributed, and > > less restricted as to their use. Let the others get out there and there > > will be a photo finish at the body count line before it is finally > > stoped by the authorities. > > > > Scatsta wrote: > > > > > > RLatulip@ao*.co* wrote: > > > > > > >snip< > > > >I do however mind when you attempt to tell me that it is perfect and > > > > electronics never fail. I bet that the last two divers to die on a rebreather > > > > thought the same thing. >snip< > > > > > > Er, have I missed something here? I pressume you are refering to the > > > Inspiration accidents. The units from the last two fatalities have not > > > been recovered so we can't say that the electronics failed. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Kevin Pickering > > > kevpix@gl*.co*.uk* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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