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I have read this forum, and have to ask, is it really worth the risk?
FTR I have dove most everything but a CCR. Input appreciated, I read over 180 people have died using them.
Australian hyperbaric physician Dr. Andrew Fock, who is a very accomplished rebreather diver and gave a riveting presentation at Oztek last year in which he estimated that the risk of dying on a rebreather could be as high as 10 times that of open circuit scuba, based on fatalities from all the available data bases such as DAN, BSAC etc. Does that give you pause?
Fock presented a probabilistic analysis that rebreathers were roughly 20 times more likely to fail than an open circuit set of double tanks, so carrying sufficient bailout is essential.
FTR I have dove most everything but a CCR. Input appreciated, I read over 180 people have died using them.