Quote: (Originally Posted by
Decodiver)
On May 25th 2006 I was at about 20 metres depth when I suffered a full flood on my CCR, I received a full caustic cocktail without any notice, burning my mouth, my throat and air passage and causing me to vomit uncontrollably.
Fortunately, I had bailout, I half emptied an ali-40 cuft in the 2 minutes it took me to get to the surface, puking all the way.
My DSV was caked in caustic material, if I had a BOV it would have been the same. The strength of the cocktail, stripped the anodizing from one of my VR3s underwater!
If I did not have bailout, I would have died.
It was my daughter's first birthday.
I wouldn't get into a swimming pool without bailout.
Dave 'Bailout' Cooper.
That should be printed and posted to all divers once a year. I licked my finger after filling my scrubber once and vomited for ten minutes, I can't imagine having that happen underwater with a full gobful of lime, I have the utmost respect for those insignificant little white grains -- and for anyone that survives a full cocktail. I've also got no doubt that it's going to take feck all lime contamination to render a DSV useless.
A cocktail and a CO2 hit are the two things that genuinely scare me on a rebreather, and the two things that only reliable bailout is going to save you from. Likewise, I won't go in water I can't stand up in without bailout either.