| Ban reversed, Gag attempt unsuccessful
The Rebreather World ban on my posting advertised on the front page of RBW has been lifted after a US Court to whom a manufacturer complained, decided there had been no "trespass" or breach of any order.
Just to clarify, there was never any legal claim that the data was libelous.
The failure to gag this activity should warn off any party wishing to go down the same route. I hope we are reaching a watershed where safety data on rebreathers is becoming fully open.
The spreadsheet involved gave my annual rebreather sales estimates, from which diver exposure per unit and numbers in use were calculated in an open manner, with risk per unit figures calculated in accord with the EN61508 process.
We have now added to the spreadsheet tools that another Rebreather World member kindly contributed, that allow information to be mined from the data and the confidence in the answer computed. Some of the conclusions being reached make the data much more interesting than in the original form.
I plan reposting the entire spreadsheet to the Deep Life web site later this year when some third parties finish some papers they are working on using that data, with the toolset.
Alex |