Quote: (Originally Posted by
Freef)
your bailout and/or deco is plumbed into the loop, can you still breathe the gas for long enough to get back to the surface?
Err.... what difference does it make if it serves the loop *in addition to an OC regulator* or not?
As long as the line to the rig can be disconnected, or isolated, it makes no difference at all. Volume is volume. Make it breathable from "some" open circuit reg if you are worried about OC bailout, and then look with your eyes open to see if that gas might also be shared with the rig. Share resources, that's all.
If you dive a CCR, and you carry stage bottles, using a "smidgen" of that gas as your rigs diluent supply just makes sense
If that gas is all available to a BOV then even better.
In any event, this is off the thread. The discussion is not "should we" but "how" to plumb gas to a BOV. The assumption of the thread is that the decision has already been taken to do so.
Dave