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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 11:45:05 -0500
To: "A.Appleyard" <A.APPLEYARD@fs*.mt*.um*.ac*.uk*>
From: Marc Dufour <mdufour@CA*.OR*>
Subject: Re: How useful will computerized mixture rebreathers be?
Cc: techdiver@terra.net

At 03:15 PM 10/5/95 BST, A.Appleyard wrote:

>  When computerized rebreathers are finally developed and on sale, how useful
...
>passed a work diving law, and I read in a newspaper that working biologists
>had to fight #@%$ hard in Parliament to be allowed to continue using scuba
>without air lines and lifelines.
...
>practically using mixture rebreathers without lines, systematically ignoring
>the law until the law is repealed or changed [1]. I suspect that the only
...
>from scuba, only from lines, don't deserve to be respected when practical
>conditions advise the opposite. (How much of this is a fear that helium gas
>supplying companies will lose profit if methods that use less heliox per
>heliox dive become common?) What is the state of the law about work divers
>breathing nitrox from scuba or from a lifeline?

   How such a law (like the french prohibition, for example) can be enforced
anyways? Does everybody who goes out at sea has to log a diveplan to a
central authority? Or does every outgoing diveship gets inspected on it's
way by a patrol boat from the local DISSE (* Directorate of Inspection of
Subaqueous Surface Endeavour)???

   It's fine to pass laws, but if those laws are clearly unenforcable or
whatever, this is getting ridiculous.

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