It should be noted that Lamar Hines did have a problem diving the unit recently-
Cross Posted from another site- Dated 05.11.05
Dive Rite Rebreather Incident
Lamar, Dan Lins, and Jordan Carrivuex did a dive to the eol in the Lockwood tunnel (235ffw max.) for approx.:25 min...Lamar on the P2ptima w/02 and 50% He, Dan and Jordan on TX 15/50 or so. I was there diving downstream with Jerry and Matt from Dive Rite to the downstream tunnel below the Pit (293ffw). Strangely enough, there was not another vehicle, other than our four, there all day...on a beautiful 78 degree Sat?
Upon surfacing Lamar experienced lightheadedness and extreme fatigue, so was put on 02 and fluids and driven to Shands, where they did all neurological tests and found him to be EXTREMELY dehydrated (blood was like "sludge", according to the nurses), and treated in the chamber on table 6 as a precautionary measure, even though they weren't sure it was any kind of Type II DCS. They pumped over five bags of fluids into him IV, he drank fluids like a maniac, and was still dehydrated 12 hours later, but with no other symptoms.
Turns out, as he told me upon reflecting on his fluid intake previous to the dive, that he had altered workout and other habits that would drastically decrease his hydration rates over the past few weeks (moved into a new house, etc.)
He was home Sunday evening after 24 hours at Shands, and is completely OK.
While I am not interested in starting a fire- I think it was an important event. I am glad to hear that Lamar is doing well.
A lot of people seem to be describing it as a …semi prototype unit.
As Stefan has said it seems to be going into production in July- we’ll see.
