Remember the Dive Guard posting?

[g1138]

Anyone remember this post form last year?
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/re...rguard-looks-skeptics-bloggers-reporters.html

Well looks like they went through with it:
Dive Guard, an auto-inflator that recovers a diver to the surface if you haven't been breathing for 90seconds.
Lets hope that monitor doesn't fail.
Diver Guard ? Automatically brings you to the surface in an emergency | California Diver Magazine

[video=youtube;q2yVAoBweBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2yVAoBweBE[/video]

 

[scubastingray]

"Once it figures out your breathing pattern if it notices after 40 seconds that something is wrong because you're breathing fast"

Jesus this sounds terrible.
Fighting current to get back to the boat? Enjoy that swim from the surface.

 

[Zeagle Eagle]

Looks like a law suit waiting to happen. Everything malfunctions especially new products at one time or another. The first diver that is sent to the surface involuntarily...

 

[divad]

Fighting current to get back to the boat?

Screaming like a strangled chicken?

 

[Carl_F]

"Once it figures out your breathing pattern if it notices after 40 seconds that something is wrong because you're breathing fast"

Jesus this sounds terrible.
Fighting current to get back to the boat? Enjoy that swim from the surface.

This is NOT what was said. 40 seconds and an audible and visual alarm. And there is an override. Only later does it inflate the BC. However, it's still not necessarily something I'll get and agree that malfunctions that shoot one to the surface won't be fun. Though, one could probably dump air through the manual valves on the BC to mitigate the malfunction.

Carl

 

[TN-Steve]

I went and read the thread referenced when this was first shown at DEMA.... All I can do is my best George Takei......



Steve

 

[scubastingray]

This is NOT what was said. 40 seconds and an audible and visual alarm. And there is an override. Only later does it inflate the BC. However, it's still not necessarily something I'll get and agree that malfunctions that shoot one to the surface won't be fun. Though, one could probably dump air through the manual valves on the BC to mitigate the malfunction.

Carl

It's actually a direct quote. Cut short, sure, but a direct quote.

actually, left out either.

At any rate, this seems like a solution for a problem that is miniscule. Surely the failure rate of the units will cause more issues than the lives it saves.

 

[Zeagle Eagle]

Do you know why they don't do spin training to get your private pilot license? The training killed way more pilots than the instances of inadvertent spins. Will this device kill or maim more divers than it saves? I want to be 100% sure that it can't inflate accidentally. When that criteria is met I might consider it.

 

[tursiops]

Wow, you guys are too much! If the unit malfunctions, and starts inflating your BCD, there is an override. If the override malfunctions, you can pull off the LPI hose, a skill that you learned in confined water during your OW class. You do remember how to do that, don't you? So you have three levels of redundancy...not bad. Where is the level of redundancy if you stop breathing? Your buddy that has his back turned and is 30 feet away taking pictures? Right.

Hey, I don't want a DiverGuard either, but at least denigrate it with credible reasons.

 

[Dr. Lecter]

How did the same country that gave us the simple, effective, AK47 of the sub-gun world (aka the Uzi) create this piece of ?

---------- Post added August 22nd, 2014 at 04:38 PM ----------

If the unit malfunctions, and starts inflating your BCD, there is an override. If the override malfunctions, you can pull off the LPI hose, a skill that you learned in confined water during your OW class. You do remember how to do that, don't you?

To be clear: this thing is a great cost/benefit solution, but the occasional auto-inflating Halcyon SS LPI is an insane death trap?