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Reinhard Buchaly schrieb:
>
>
> About two weeks ago a diver died using the EDO 04, after he had purchased
> the rebreather a week ago.
>
> The public prosecutor requested that I do an expertise of the unit of the
> deseased. I did so in the presense of a police man.
> Both units had the same failure point. This failure can kill a diver.
>
> Because not all users of the rebreather EDO 04 are known and cannot be
> informed by the public prosecutor, this warning is done via the usual e-mail
> lists.
> If anybody knows a user of the rebreather EDO 04, he should give him this
> notice as fast as possible.
On www.thueringen.de/de/lka/aktuell/presse/pm/10774/uindex.html there is
shown what the police thinks to have been the cause of the acident. Pics
show a badly warped checkvalve, which may have been leaking, or stuck
closed.
Imho redundancy and/or a more reliable checkvalve( like one with mica
disk) would have prevented an accident ( if stuck, not if one was
leaking)
Reinhard Buchaly schrieb:
>
>
> About two weeks ago a diver died using the EDO 04, after he had purchased
> the rebreather a week ago.
>
> The public prosecutor requested that I do an expertise of the unit of the
> deseased. I did so in the presense of a police man.
> Both units had the same failure point. This failure can kill a diver.
>
> Because not all users of the rebreather EDO 04 are known and cannot be
> informed by the public prosecutor, this warning is done via the usual e-mail
> lists.
> If anybody knows a user of the rebreather EDO 04, he should give him this
> notice as fast as possible.
On www.thueringen.de/de/lka/aktuell/presse/pm/10774/uindex.html there is
shown what the police thinks to have been the cause of the acident. Pics
show a badly warped checkvalve, which may have been leaking, or stuck
closed.
Imho redundancy and/or a more reliable checkvalve( like one with mica
disk) would have prevented an accident ( if stuck, not if one was
leaking)