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Marc · 26th March 2008, 14:45

Quote: (Originally Posted by jkaterenchuk)

Glad everything worked out and you posted this valuable lesson for all to learn. Being relatively new to diving the Kiss Classic as I was reading your post it occurred to me that you injected O2 and breathed in to trigger the ADV. I am not sure what my instinctive reaction might be in the same situation but would it not have been better to immediately turn the knob on the BOV and be on OC? Then your lungs would have had good air faster than sucking it thru the loop. Am I overly concerned that if your PO2 display was reading that low that the air you inhaled to trigger the ADV might have been even lower in O2 content? Maybe too low!

I wonder what others have done in this same situation?

John

Couldn't agree more with John...I mean thanks for sharing your story and glad that nothing serious happened but I think the bottomline in general should be: "get the f*** off that loop" when you get a reading like that. Many others may have gotten to sleep already..
With the BOV fitted as standard bailing out to OC is too easy on the KISS...I've actually just gone to OC mode a couple of times on the surface at the end of a dive when I felt I had to work hard and couldn't be stuffed checking/maintaining a high pO2

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Marc New Member Current Rebreather/s: Classic Kiss Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Perth Posts: 91	Re: Incident on the surface - mCCR Quote: (Originally Posted by jkaterenchuk) Glad everything worked out and you posted this valuable lesson for all to learn. Being relatively new to diving the Kiss Classic as I was reading your post it occurred to me that you injected O2 and breathed in to trigger the ADV. I am not sure what my instinctive reaction might be in the same situation but would it not have been better to immediately turn the knob on the BOV and be on OC? Then your lungs would have had good air faster than sucking it thru the loop. Am I overly concerned that if your PO2 display was reading that low that the air you inhaled to trigger the ADV might have been even lower in O2 content? Maybe too low! I wonder what others have done in this same situation? John Couldn't agree more with John...I mean thanks for sharing your story and glad that nothing serious happened but I think the bottomline in general should be: "get the f*** off that loop" when you get a reading like that. Many others may have gotten to sleep already.. With the BOV fitted as standard bailing out to OC is too easy on the KISS...I've actually just gone to OC mode a couple of times on the surface at the end of a dive when I felt I had to work hard and couldn't be stuffed checking/maintaining a high pO2 __________________ Classic KISS #271
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