Quote: (Originally Posted by
RichClark)
A bit of a hijack, sorry.
That's probably true, but I wonder if an inspo (or any other OTS cunterlung Rebreather for that matter) is more prone to flood because extra breaks in the loop
Not trying unit bash!
I flooded my loop, through user error / poor maintenance on about minute 75 of a 65m training dive
so its probably worth considering that a loop flood isn't always going to occur early on in the dive.
More food for thought....
Rich
I have to say i got a hell of a lot of water in my inspo on two occasions. Having the large counter lungs it was not an issue to have half the exhale lung full of water. I ended both dives on loop.
It was amusing to take the inject button off and see a steady jet of water poor out.
The KISS just doesn't have the potently to handle that much water. You would have to bailout. It is it's biggest failing IMHO.
As for failure points on the KISS? I don't think number of failure points is at all important its how likely they are to fail that counts. I have read about a few KISS floods and experienced a fair bit of gurgling my self QED there has to be Ingres possibilities in the design that apparently can elude normal preview checks.
Personally I find it hard to do good YBOD quality positive and negative tests on the KISS. The OPV blows much too easily to hold a good positive and I am almost frightened to do a negative test due to the design of the ADV.
On the other hand i don't worry about it so long as i have adequate bailout. I did some silly 60m Alpinist dives on the YBOD but there is no way id dive alpinist on the KISS to any depth below 20m.
ATB
Mark Chase