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I am by no means an expert on rebreathers. In fact my total dive time is about 20 minutes in a 5m tank. But even with this limited experience and knowledge I realise this is complete crap.Have you tried out a rebreather? If you had I think you would not post such complete nonsense. What is the first rule of rescue/first aid....do not put yourself at risk. Swapping a mouthpiece back and forth is bad enough when buddy breathing from an open circuit reg. Now you want people to do it with a closed circuit one. Lets look at the problems 1. Flooding the loop, this is either going to give you a nice caustic soda mouthwash or severaly reduce the effectiveness of the scrubber 2. Using up your limited supply of diluent. You have to breath out on the ascent so as not to burst a lung and since you would be doing this with the reg out of your mouth you become an open circuit diver 3. losing all buoyancy control as the breathing bag is your buoyancy compensator and since you are breathing most of the air from it you will be dumping most of the air 4. Having the other person screw up because they do not know what the hell is going on because they do not use a CCR, so unless you expect all the training agencies to start teaching people loop managment for rebreathers I do not think it will be a sucess. Hell PADI only teaches buddy breathing as an option these days. I could go on and on about just how stupid this train of thought is but it is ruining my breakfast. This is DUMB!!!! stop giving people more stupid ideas, there is more than enough bull shit flying around out there as is with out people adding to it. If you really want to know about these things ask Rich P or Rod Farb I'm sure they will give you a more complete answer as to why it is wrong. Gibbo John M. Gibbons 0171-793-1101 Home Univ. London School of Pharmacy 0171-582-6561 Fax Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry 0171-753-5800 Wk ex 4882 jgibbo@cl*.ul*.ac*.uk* or jgibbo@cu*.ph*.lo*.ac*.uk*
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