narked at 90

dont push your scrubber below is some thing i posted a wile back
and like decoweenie a number of us have experimented with co2 hits and now i see how stupied i was as it did not help when i took a real hit.
kind regards john routley

i have changed my mind in the hope you dont make the same mistakes as my friend we put to rest last friday after getting him self killed on his home build rebreather and don't think because you have a commercial unit it will be different
you can not handle co2 and sorb is cheap so why do you want to push it?
#now don't get me wrong because those that know me know my history with rebreathers and the things i have done with them over the years to see what are the limits, and some of the things like giving my self a dry hit to see if i would recognise the onset of co2 before it takes hold underwater....i have had 2 co2 hits for real and i can tell you the dry hit dose not help in any way.
the 2 hits i have had have been different from each other and with different on sets.
my friend was a very capable diver much more so than most of the internet warriors on these boards but it would appear that was no help to him when the rebreather killed him,
i have been told my friend was pushing his scrubber to the limit and i know he thought he could tell the onset of co2....he was wrong......
please don't be the next person to find out the hard way about co2 and what it is capable of doing because you can not handle it...run away from it and stay as far away from the limit as you can, there are no second chances

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