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Scott, if you're looking for closed-cirecuit rebreather training, Hal Watts seemed pretty eager to provide it. I believe I heard him say he has run several classes on 2 or 3 different rebreathers. Also, Jack Kellon (VP of engineering at BMD) said that they were running training for their semi-closed in Canada, and were getting started with training through IANTD. The folks in the pool for the BMD "experience", including Billy Deans, apparently represented this IANTD training. It seems that rebreathers and training are available if you know where to look, but they aren't widespread (yet) by a long shot... > Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 19:47:31 -0800 > To: cherf@ci*.co* (Scott Cherf) > From: rodfarb@ce*.co* (Rod Farb) > Subject: Re: New to list: interested in rebreathers > Cc: techdiver@opal.com > > Opinion 1 is wrong. Oceanic does have the product. > > Opinion 2 is wrong. Military closed circuit units are considered weapons. > Civilian units are considered weapons only when fired from a catapult > > > >Their opinion was that: > > > >1) Oceanic was 'just teasing' about the Phibian; they didn't really have a > > product. > > > >2) Closed Circuit systems like the Phibian were still restricted by the > > military and clasified as 'weapons', which meant that I didn't have > > a rats chance of training for one anytime soon. > > > >Can anyone out there refute one or both of these positions? I'd really > >like to continue believing that there *is* a Santa Claus. > > > >Thanks, > >Scott.
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