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> Sorry bad day in the lab and I was feeling particularly intolerant. I only 
> read Rich's post afterwards about the Germans practicing buddy breathing 
> on CCR. Well if they think it will work.....   As for me I think it would 
> be far and away too much stress.

I agree, and that's why we decided to not even bother trying to train for 
rebreather buddy-breathing.

> Any way I though these 
> things were designed so that the only way you are going to get a complete 
> system failure is if you lose the loop, scrubber, and breathing bag. As 
> long as that is intact you can drive it manually. So a complete failure 
> should be unlikely. 

That was our philosophy as well - the probability of a failure that 
necessitates buddy breathing is so low, that it's not worth our time to 
spend the many hours that would be necessary to train for it (buddy 
breathing). If there's an unrecoverable loop failure, go to OC bailout.

Aloha,
Rich

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