On Monday, October 08, 2001 1:25 AM, Carl G. Heinzl wrote:

> I believe the Inspiration holds the notorious records of most deaths
> on any single type of rebreather.  I don't even remember what the
> current body count is.

I'm almost certain that it's out of the 'teens and into the twenties.  And
that it's not higher is, in at least one instance, due to the good buddy
skills of an open-circuit diver.  I don't know if the new manufacturer has
now corrected the problem, but it's hard to maintain serious interest in a
machine in which the electronics invite the user to re-calibrate - at
50-metres!!!!  :-)

(Having said that, one of the local guys has modified his machine, and has
been doing a lot of diving in the 90-metre range on the 'Niagara' - a famous
bullion ship that sank off of New Zealand.)

Strike