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Answer to J Gibbons who wrote re solo rebreather buddy breathing;
>
>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
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As Richrd Pyle says in one of his latests posts, ask the German military,
they do it! While paticpating in a rebreather course in the Bahamamas
recently the Drager reps present (from Germany) had all been trained to
buddy breathe on the units. (this is asuming [whoa, bad word] that the
donor AND the diver with the problem is on a rebreather of course) The
diver with the problem(?) gets behind (like piggy back) the donor and the
mouth piece is closed and passed back over the head, then switched on to
breathe and the exercise is repeted until on the surface or at another gas
source. Obviously a somewhat difficult exercise imvolving precision, trust
and a cool mind (German attributes no less) and not something you would do
for kicks in your spare time, (unless of course you were German) but it
sure beats drowning. This technique supposes that one is not facing a long
and ardious decompression schedule when the problrm arises, as then it
would truly be a bitch .

Obviously trying to do this with a rebreather unsavvy  open cicuit diver
would be, as you pointed out, an exercicse in futility, but hopefully the
reason you are on a rebreather is to get away from open cicuit and us
bubble blowers anyway.

A even better soulution would be to carry adequate bail out capicity to be
more self suffecient. Chris Hellas latest post sums it up pretty well,
theres a lot more to rebreather diving than just getting wet, even on the
so called 'basic' recreational no deco models.

Safe divin'
KD

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