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[Captain Chaos]

I understand the BSAC are allowing "limited decompression" with the drager rebreathers.
I believe that drager sell the unit for non decompression diving and I am concerned that BSAC may find themselves in a position of liability should an incident occur, the manufacturers guarantee would be invalidates and the HSE may have something to say.
Additionally I wonder how diving one of the units in a deco scenario would effect personal insurances etc as I do not know of any agencies that provide decompression training on the drager units.

Captain C

[Nevil Adkins]

I understand the BSAC are allowing "limited decompression" with the drager rebreathers.
I believe that drager sell the unit for non decompression diving and I am concerned that BSAC may find themselves in a position of liability should an incident occur, the manufacturers guarantee would be invalidates and the HSE may have something to say.
Additionally I wonder how diving one of the units in a deco scenario would effect personal insurances etc as I do not know of any agencies that provide decompression training on the drager units.


At the risk of feeding trolls....

"Captain Chaos" has obviously not taken any notice of the guidelines saying that anonymous postings are not welcome. He has also obviously not read the Rebreather Resource Centre, even though he claims to "understand" them.

The statement on minimal decompression reads:
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From 1st January 2002, BSAC enable the use of planned decompression when diving a rebreather for up to a maximum planned decompression of not more than 10 minutes and stop depth(s) not deeper than 6 m. In all cases, the planned decompression should not exceed that permitted by the unit manufacturer and/or the Training Agency certification held by the rebreather diver.



It should be remembered that the Dr?ger Dolphin is a non-decompression unit, as stipulated by the manufacturer. However, the BSAC Rebreather Working Group has already approached Drager to see whether they would also sanction limited decompression diving on this unit in line with the BSAC Rebreather Safe Diving Practices.
UNQUOTE

I think it is quite clear that BSAC have excluded the Draeger rebreathers from their Minimal Decompression statement for the time being and in the absence of any follow-up saying that Draeger have responded to BSAC's approach this still stands.

Regards
Nevil Adkins

[Keith Lawrence(BSAC)]

Thanks for the clarification Nevil. "Captain Chaos" and his like are not welcome here, he has in fact been barred and cannot post any further trolls. Constructive comments and questions from genuine divers are always welcome of course, but obvious trolls will be deleted and/or barred without notice.

Thanks

Keith L