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decoweenie · 29th September 2006, 13:58

Quote: (Originally Posted by SteveL)

- BUT my question is how many of us have had a catastrophic loop failure that has required OC bail out all the way out ?

I have a hypothetical question...

If only 1% of the CCR dives resulted in requiring OC-bail-out from the bottom to surface, how many people would be willing to accept this risk for the sake of diving uncumbered without stages knowing that if they have a loop flood, they will die ?

That means 1 in 100 dives, so could be a high percentage. So let's reduce to 0.5%, that means 1 complete loop flood in 200 dives.

Or let's say 1 in 500 dives ? Remember it could happen anytime between dive 1 and 500..

Who would take this risk ?

I know a few alpinist divers. Some are just lazy and complacent, but some are fully aware of the risk but willing to accept the percentage.

I know you didn't ask about alpinist, but IMHO, there is no such thing as semi-alpinist (i.e. like semi pregnant) so either you have adequate OC bail-out or you don't. So having a small amount of off-board gas just to take "sanity breaths" is alpinist in my book.

What would someone do when after taking a few sanity breaths, they realize that they can't get back on the loop and not having adequate OC-bail-out ?

29th September 2006, 13:58	#17 (permalink)
decoweenie Crash Test Dummy Current Rebreather/s: Other CCR Other Rebreather/s: Other CCR Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cairo Posts: 5,488	Re: Bailout Gases for long 60 metre dives Quote: (Originally Posted by SteveL) - BUT my question is how many of us have had a catastrophic loop failure that has required OC bail out all the way out ? I have a hypothetical question... If only 1% of the CCR dives resulted in requiring OC-bail-out from the bottom to surface, how many people would be willing to accept this risk for the sake of diving uncumbered without stages knowing that if they have a loop flood, they will die ? That means 1 in 100 dives, so could be a high percentage. So let's reduce to 0.5%, that means 1 complete loop flood in 200 dives. Or let's say 1 in 500 dives ? Remember it could happen anytime between dive 1 and 500.. Who would take this risk ? I know a few alpinist divers. Some are just lazy and complacent, but some are fully aware of the risk but willing to accept the percentage. I know you didn't ask about alpinist, but IMHO, there is no such thing as semi-alpinist (i.e. like semi pregnant) so either you have adequate OC bail-out or you don't. So having a small amount of off-board gas just to take "sanity breaths" is alpinist in my book. What would someone do when after taking a few sanity breaths, they realize that they can't get back on the loop and not having adequate OC-bail-out ? __________________ "...after a while you get bored offering advice to a bull that like to keep butting the fence with its head rather than walking through the open gate..." - Rebreather World PM Last edited by decoweenie : 29th September 2006 at 15:28. Reason: incomplete question...
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