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Jim,

What's new? Didn't I say so?

THOMAS

You wrote:

Using your BC inflater as your third reg does not mean breathing the air in
your BC, you bozos.

You breath from your BC inflater by depressing both inflate and exhaust
valves at the same time while it is in your mouth, and then inhale. Try it,
it works.

   Jim

On Wednesday, January 12, 2000, RBDhunter@ao*.co* wrote:
>Tom,
>
>I think you are misinformed about the probability of CO2 problems from
>breathing air stored in your BC. The BC does not release any CO2 and the
gas
>in it is fresh from your tank already (unless of course you manually filled
>it, which is almost never done). The reason you are taught not to breath
air
>from your BC is contaminants, some people even use Clorox to kill any
>bacteria growing in there. As you could imagine a breath full of that could
>be quite unpleasant. Hope this clears things up. Any one out there knows
how
>CO2 would get in a BC, I think you should warn US!
>
>Regards,
>Richard Daniel
>
><< NEVER breathe the air from your bladder. The trick is that you operate
both
> the exhaust and the inflater button at the same moment so you breathe
> straight from BG. Rebreathing air from your bladder will almost certainly
> black you out within a couple of minutes due to CO2.
> Practice this skill in a pool like environment first before you think
about
> using this skill, and it does need practice...
> The deal here is that your "third reg" comes from right post that does not
> roll of. Ever using this option would need some strange situation indeed,
> but still it is an option not to forget.
> I can imagine you can figure out these situations yourself. <g>
>
> Best,
>
> THOMAS >>
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