Quote: (Originally Posted by
Marc T)
If you get water in the exhale OTS CL its stay in the CL you see and feel it and can dump it.
In the Boris the water can obviously too easily come from exhale CL into the Scrubber and create caustic cocktail.
Its as dangerous as if the OPV was directly fitted in the scrubber.
MK15 is one of my prefered Rebreather ( nether own it and nether will because its a too old and difficult to maintain ) Boris is one of my theorically prefered RB but flooding a loop is one of the greatest prob you can have on a RB, preventin flood is much important to me thank the possibility of recovering the loop.
Was'nt the MK15 OPV in the (unique) inhale counterlung?
I agree I have had a significant flood on the YBOD (maby 2ltrs of water following the mouthpiece falling off) and all the water staid in the counter lung there was little more than a few drops in the bottom of the scrubber.
I dumped most of it through the OPV and finished the dive on loop
Even if the leek was perpetual you have clear indication in the loop and counterlung and emptying the loop is simple enough. With a bit of fafing you can do it without using up dill as well.
It seems obvious that with rear mounted lungs this is going to be a lot harder to achieve. but I am not failure with loop recovery on a Boris so it may have a trick up its sleeve. However from the posts of Iani and Dr Mike its not a very good one.
ATB
Mark Chase