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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 16:51:07 -0500
To: kevink@ap*.co* (Kevin-Neil Klop)
From: mdufour@CA*.OR* (Marc Dufour)
Subject: Re: Draeger Atlantis
Cc: techdiver@terra.net

>In all the talks about failures, I think people are talking about two
>different things...
>
>Rich uses examples of, say, putting a Y-valve on a tank and attaching two
>complete regulator systems to the valves.  The complexity has doubled (two
>regulators) but he asserts that the chances of a life threatening emergency
>has decreased.
>
>There are several problems with this that makes the statement both true and
>false...

   True. If one of the regs free-flows (or an O-ring fails), the single air 
supply gets depleted real fast, whereas in an independant doubles, you have 
a real enuinely true authentic reduntant air supply... :)

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** Marc Dufour - [\] ACUC 6 31874 - http://WWW.CAM.ORG/~mdufour **

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