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Tried to send this very late last night but I see It did'nt all get through.
so, modified slightly after a nights rest I'll try again.

Answer to J Gibbons who wrote;

'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, etc.'
.
As Richrd Pyle says in one of his recent posts, ask the German military,
they do it! While paticpating in a rebreather course in the Bahamamas
recently I had the pleasure to meet the Drager reps (from Germany) who had
been trained to buddy breathe on the units. (now this is assuming [whoa,
bad word] that the donor AND the diver with the problem is on a rebreather
or at least VERY rebreather savy and has practiced this before) The diver
with the problem gets behind (like piggy backing) the donor and the mouth
piece is closed and passed back over the head, then switched on to breathe
and the exercise is repeated until on the surface or at another gas source.
Obviously a somewhat difficult exercise imvolving precision, trust and a
cool head (German attributes no less) and not something you would do for
kicks in your spare time, (unless maybe you were German) but it sure beats
drowning. It no doubt takes practice, practice, practice, something many
divers are loathe to do at the best of times as they just wanna 'go divin'.
Hopefully with the 'right?' (now what does THAT mean) training rebreather
divers will take it a little more seriously (?????????). The above
technique was obviously NOT developed to use in a situation where one is
already facing a long and ardeous decompression schedule when the problem
arises, as then it would truly be a bitch .

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 us bubble blowers anyway.

So a better soulution would be to carry adequate off board bail out
capicity so as to be more self suffecient. Chris Hellas' recent post sums
that up pretty damn well! After all there's a lot more to rebreather diving
than just getting wet, even on a so called 'basic' recreational model.

Safe divin'
KD

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