| Re: Waiver of Liability for rebreathers?
I don't think anybody disputes the assumed risk and negligence issues that have been raised above.
I think that if there were to be an issue, it would be a performance claim of the mfg not working out and causing injury. For example, if someone stated 'rated to 100m'. Well, they better be damn sure that the equipment is capable of going to 100m. If something consistently malfunctions or just doesnt perform at 50m and casues an injury, they are in deep $#!T. Again, hence why we probably see so little actual hard data on Rebreather's from the mfg's and few if any are held to any specific higher test stds prior to going out the door.
The reality is that any of us can strap anything we want on our backs and do whatever we want with it...anything goes wrong OUTSIDE of the published/tested/documented specs, then it is our negligence, and our own fault. |