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  Marc Dufour <mdufour@CA*.OR*> wrote:-
> With the current "fad" about rebreather sport diving, I would not be
> surprised that someone gets out within a few months/years a simple and
> (relatively) cheap attachment to turn any reasonably-sized BC into a
> rebreather. Despite the inevitable howling about the safety, advisability
> and wiseness of such a device, you can expect it to catch real good,
> especially among [put your favourite type of diver here]...

In UK at least, where makers and suppliers of naval and industrial rebreathers
took all the precautions they could that they didn't get into the hands of the
general public in case they were used for sport diving, converting a diver's
lifejacket into a homemade oxygen rebreather is not new. Not recommended, not
very frequent, but it did happen. It would not be very long duration with its
original inflation cylinder. The BSAC (British Sub-Aqua Club)'s mistrust of
rebreathers originated from accidents when completely untrained people tried
to dive like the frogmen when frogmen's kit was sold to all comers as ordinary
war-surplus along with boots and combat jackets and suchlike after 1945.

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