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To: Harold
To: Gartner <hgartner@ra*.or*>
Subject: Re: Rebreathers
From: Roderick Farb <rfarb@em*.un*.ed*>
Cc: techdiver@opal.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 01:03:23 -0400 (EDT)
Call it Matthew I, Mark is used up.

On Sun, 9 Apr 1995, Harold Gartner wrote:

> I have two different friends here on the net who are thinking and planning
> on building rebreathers, hopefully for eventual resale to the rest of us.
> Each has asked me several general questions and asked that I post the
> questions here.  They'll each get to see the responses that way.
> 
> Primarily and simply, the questions relate to what features, such as  deep
> rating, time, costs etc. would be most important.  Likewise, since the
> technology isn't all that secret, if $$ is not in issue how would you build
> one?  That is to say how much automation would you use vs. manual control.
> Who you go semi closed or fully closed?  Would you want the ability to
> repack your own Co2 absorber or just replace a canister?  That is how cheap
> do you except the maintence to really be.  What kind of price tag will
> these support?  How many of us are really ready, for example, excluding
> Rich, to plunk down $15,000?  Lastly, what would you name the device?
> 
> Hopefully, the friends will give credit to us all if they go ahead with
> development!
> 
> 
> Harold Gartner
> hgartner@ra*.or*
> CompuServe ID 71470,1423
> 6900 Via Alba
> Camarillo, California
> 805 482-9743
> 
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