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Trained on the REMO kit at DEMA. It is an O2 surface rebreather which will turn the Jumbo D cylinder into a six hour supply of oxygen using a low constant flow rate from the O2 regulator (at ..5 liters/minute). Nice idea and well executed including a good user checklist. Most of the guts of the unit is intended for "one-time" use. At $195 it is not intended to be for casual use. However, nothing can stop a user from replacing the soda lime with what ever you use with your rebreather [:-)] and the tubing can be cleaned using the same techniques that we use to clean rebreather bags and counter lungs. Again, I would keep it in my truck along side my DAN kit and my usual Deco tanks. If I were three or four hours away from the nearest chamber, I would certainly break it out and make serious use of it. Mat Bloedorn wrote: > It is that simple. Out of gas, and the deco is over. > > You can try to improve the situation by having some emergency O2 on > the surface for use on the surface. If you have surface support, well > then even better. Maybe they can bring you some extra gas. > > Either way skip breathing doesn't seem to be the answer especially if > you are pushing the PO2 limits for that paricular dive. This just > doesn't seem smart. > > Any body used the DAN "REMO" system? It appear to be an O2 rebreather > for surface emergency use. They say you get about 6X extension out of > your emergency O2. > > Mat. > > ---Steven Bliim <Steven.Bliim@Mc*.co*.au*> wrote: > > > > It seems that Greg may have missed the point about deco and > breathing. Sure, > > if you are in that situation you try and relax and reduce your > breathing > > rate, but if he also meant to try and deliberately not breathe as > much, what > > is the benefit? By reducing his breathing he reduces the opportunity > to > > eliminate nitrogen and loads up on CO2. > > > > > > What is this? > > > > When you are out of gas your deco is over. Simple huh?! > > > > Feel free to load up on CO2... that ought to be interesting... > > Modify your breathing indeed.... sounds like some kind of Tai Chi > > BS. > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > Greg Kuiper wrote: > > > > Jeff Bentley, > > > > Of course I meant the comment "to modify your breathing if > > you are short > > on deco gas". > > > > If an emergency situation comes up that causes me to extend > > my > > decompression and I don't have enough deco gas or back gas > > then I am > > going to slow down my breathing to extend my deco. as long > > as possible > > before surfacing. > > > > Example: > > 360' trimix dive, Buddy gets entagled in wreck and has back > > gas failure > > due to a number of reasons. He shares long hose with me and > > it takes an > > additional twenty minutes to get him free and to the first > > deco stop. > > We both now have an awful lot of deco ahead and not enough > > gas at our > > current breathing rate. > > > > Do you think it would it would be better to continue > > breathing at a > > normal pace and blow your decompression or slow down your > > breathing, > > relax and get as much deco as possible? > > > > It is easy to cut your breathing in half at deco if you > > think about it. > > > > Greg Kuiper > > > > -- > > Jeff Bentley > > jeffbentley@mi*.co* > > <http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffbentley> > > > > Regards > > Steven Bliim > > > > > <HR> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> > <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2232.0"> > <TITLE>Deco and Co2 Re: gauges on deco : to be or not to be</TITLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">It seems that Greg may have > missed the point about deco and breathing. Sure, if you are in that > situation you try and<B> relax</B> and reduce your breathing rate, but > if he also meant to try and deliberately not breathe as much, what is > the benefit? By reducing his breathing he reduces the opportunity to > eliminate nitrogen and loads up on CO2.</FONT></P> > <BR> > <UL> > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">What is this? </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">When you are out of gas your > deco is over. Simple huh?! </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Feel free to load up on CO2... > that ought to be interesting...<BR> > Modify your breathing indeed.... sounds like some kind of Tai Chi > BS.<BR> > </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Jeff<BR> > </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Greg Kuiper wrote: </FONT> > </P> > <UL> > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Jeff Bentley, </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Of course I meant the comment > "to modify your breathing if you are short<BR> > on deco gas". </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">If an emergency situation comes > up that causes me to extend my<BR> > decompression and I don't have enough deco gas or back gas then I am<BR> > going to slow down my breathing to extend my deco. as long as > possible<BR> > before surfacing. </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Example:<BR> > 360' trimix dive, Buddy gets entagled in wreck and has back gas > failure<BR> > due to a number of reasons. He shares long hose with me and it takes > an<BR> > additional twenty minutes to get him free and to the first deco > stop.<BR> > We both now have an awful lot of deco ahead and not enough gas at > our<BR> > current breathing rate. </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Do you think it would it would > be better to continue breathing at a<BR> > normal pace and blow your decompression or slow down your breathing,<BR> > relax and get as much deco as possible? </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">It is easy to cut your breathing > in half at deco if you think about it. </FONT> > </P> > > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial">Greg Kuiper</FONT> > </P> > </UL> > <P><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">--<BR> > Jeff Bentley<BR> > jeffbentley@mi*.co*<BR> > </FONT><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><<A > HREF="http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffbentley" > TARGET="_blank">http://www.mindspring.com/~jeffbentley</A>></FONT></U> > </P> > </UL> > <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards</FONT> > <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Steven Bliim</FONT> > </P> > > </BODY> > </HTML> > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. 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