Rebreather Fatality Investigation.

[Gene_Hobbs]

Thanks to the AAUS lifting their three year embargo and allowing us all access to their proceedings as they come out, we have been able to add some interesting papers with more to come.

Thought you all would like to finally read this one:

Vann RD, Pollock NW and Denoble PJ. Rebreather Fatality Investigation. In: NW Pollock and JM Godfrey (Eds.) The Diving for Science…2007, Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), Twenty-sixth annual Scientific Diving Symposium, University of Miami, Miami, FL. RRR ID: 6997

 

[crispos]

Three comments.

The numbers are in the single digits and perhaps the trends shown not statistically significant - 2005 rebreather fatalities as a percentage of preumably total recreational dive fatalities in the 6-7% range means maybe 8 or 9 rebreather fatalities?

The fact that you can't quantify how much more rebreather diving is going on would mean you can't make a statement that rebreather fatality rate is increasing.

Dead divers don't talk and alot of rebreather diving is solo. So hard to do any accident analysis.

Thanks for posting this study but it needs more work.