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From: "Joe W" <arizonajeep@ho*.co*>
To: "'Paul Braunbehrens'" <Bakalite@ba*.co*>, <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: RE: What Are the Circumstances where a rebreather is appropriate? Was RE: This is inspiration diving and people are supposed to die
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 20:15:24 -0700

Don't worry... I didn't take it the wrong way.

First,
If... I ever decide to play around with electronic rebreathers and design my
own... the probability of a failure will be less than or equal to some
number I deem acceptable or I won't do the dive; right off the top I'm
thinking that %99.999999 should do it for the first run.  Those of you who
are involved in mil-std failure analysis might recognize the number...

Second,
I'll completely verify the integrity of my system before every dive.

Third,
I'll have a real (read; properly trained) buddy with me.

Fourth,
I'll have proper training myself.

I'm thinking that these four items might just take cover everything that
happened to every dead rebreather diver on your list.  Did I forget
anything?

Joe West

By the way; let me add the note that I am speaking as an engineer here, and
not a technical diver.  I'm a PADI certified instructor here to learn, and
am not qualified at all to discuss technical diving; I have no experience
whatsoever in technical diving.



>
> >I can think of a few really cool things to do with
> >electronics on a rb... but for me it would be just to
> tinker... to design
> something for myself might be fun
>
> Don't take this the wrong way, but:
>
> Nice knowing you, Joe....
>
> Tony Maffatone
> That guy in San Diego on a RB
> others I don't remember....
>
> I love to tinker too, but I try not to do it when it comes to this
> kind of stuff.  Sometimes you tinker and it works, sometimes you
> tinker and you drown.  No thanks.
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