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I believe sales numbers are over 4000, so that would be less than 0.5%? By contrast, what is the death rate on the Halcyon rebreather? Is OC safer than CCRs at 500 fsw? Also, let's consider just technical diving, not overall scuba. What is the death rate for OC tech diving? Cheers -------Original Message------- From: Steve Schultz <se2schul@st*.ma*.uw*.ca*> Sent: 03/12/03 02:54 PM To: christi5@ix*.ne*.co* Subject: Re: Re: Inspirational > > From what I understand, AP valves doesn't have the exact number of inspiration users, but estimates it to be between 2000-6000. There have been about 20 deaths. That means that 20/2000*100 = 1%. So up to 1% of inspiration users die. That is MUCH higher than OC scuba. Of course you take a risk leaving your house in the morning. What's your point? Driving a car is risky, so why would you want to do something like blindfold yourself to make it riskier? This is analogous to making the already risky sport of scuba even riskier by using a CC rebreather instead of just the standard OC gear. If 1% of automobile drivers died in car accidents, I'd walk, or hope the goverment would outlaw it. ss On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 christi5@ix*.ne*.co* wrote: > Hi Chris, > Just curious, what is the accident rate in these things? > > Also, don't you think you play the odds whenever you leave your house in the morning? > > Cheers > > > -------Original Message------- > From: Chris Elmore <chelmore@be*.ne*> > Sent: 03/12/03 10:01 AM > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: Inspirational > > > > > Bill, > There are those people who trust electronics in a moist environment to > deliver the proper gas and there are those of us that don't. You do > whatever > you want; the accident rate in these things verifies my belief. I don't > play > the odds. Your attitude reminds me of the RealTV shots of skateboarders > who > constantly crash and break bones just so they can get one run that looks > cool. > C. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill" <bill.johnstone@te*.ne*> > To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:59 AM > Subject: Inspirational > > > > All this talk of inspirations recently ~ > > Have you seen this: <a target=_blank > href="http://www.ukrs.org.uk/ukdiver/inspiration.html">http://www.ukrs.org.uk/uk diver/inspiration.html</a> > > ~ from people that actually know what they are talking about. > > > > what about all these expeditions using Inspirations: > > <a target=_blank > href="http://www.deepblu.co.uk/gallery/carpathia01.htm">http://www.deepblu.co.uk /gallery/carpathia01.htm</a> > > at 500feet for 20 minutes. > > > > and <a target=_blank > href="http://www.trimixdivers.com/Navigate.do">http://www.trimixdivers.com/Navig ate.do</a> recent dives on the Niagra in > New Zealand. > > > > I guess we will read about GUE guys doing these dives in 4-5 years time > after everyone else has moved on... > > Bill > > -- > > 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'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.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'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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