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Old 7th May 2007, 13:17   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Bringing an unconscious Rebreather diver up from depth

Quote: (Originally Posted by Gilles) View Original Post
b) managing 4 to 6 air cavities to control bouyancy
What I did was:

1) Opened his OPV wide open.
2) Reduced the bouyancy sources by dumping my wing and making myself negative. And I could easily control my loop via my mouth.

This allowed me to hang on to the diver and controlled his wing for both of us. If I was to lose my grip, he would still be on surface rather than to drop to depth.

With that, I only had to control 2 bouyancy sources on the diver (i.e. 1 effectively).

I have not had any Rebreather rescue training before that incident, just did whatever made sense at the time. So I am interested to see how this thread turns out as it could be very beneficial to all.

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c) considers you sufficiently important to risk his/her for you.
It is a moral question as well.

And you can't never know the feeling until you hold someone unconscious underwater knowing that if you let know, a family is destroyed.

When I thought about what happened later on, it scared the crap out of me...
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