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| Originally Posted by wannadivenotwork OK, time for a semi-serious contribution.
Why call rebreather's "yellow box of death"?
Whats wrong with them? (apart from all the training and cost of equipment) |
The YBOD is only one particular rebreather, the Inspiration and it's called the Yellow Box Of Death, because it's a Yellow box and it can kill you if you use it wrong.
There's also "Beanie and his amazing technicolour dream box" which I think Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a musical about
It is also known as the Yellow Box Of Debt - but that's just cos it costs loads!
However any rebreather is capable of killing it's "pilot" if they don't know what they're doing. Hence the warnings on KISS units...