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In a message dated 8/12/98, 7:47:38 AM, kirvine@sa*.ne* writes: << Of course you do like my opinion of you, which is that you are the closest thing to being able to walk on water in 2000 years - a diver who can make a cis lunar work for more than five minutes - the Mother Teresa of rebreather diving>> But in his own words (Pyle's) he did take a year training on that rebreather first and he still encountered problems during his expedition! Also if you look at the following site (where the expedition is posted in detail) you note the following listed under disadvantages. http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/treks/palautz97/rb.html#Disadvantages "The inherent weakness of closed-circuit rebreathers is the reliance on electronics to control the oxygen concentration in the breathing loop. As any underwater photographer knows, electronics and water (particularly salt water) do not mix. Indeed, closed-circuit rebreathers have earned a somewhat notorious reputation as being "unreliable", largely due to failures of the electronic O2 control system (leading to either too much, or too little oxygen in the breathing loop)." Ray LaTulippe P.S. To give you your due Richard I do think you are one hell of a diver ;-) How about a dive-off the Halcyon against the Cis. 25 dives in deep cave, 25 dives in deep open water. All problems recorded and filed for posterity! P.S.S. See yah at the pool George ;-) -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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