[Drmike]

Reports are coming in that a cave diver has had a non fatal accident on his YBOD in France

Some details below from the insp list -


"Near Fatal Accident during rebreather cave dive"

The posting refers to a cave dive with two rebreather divers one of whom
(diver B) was using what is referred to as an old style Inspiration.
Towards the end of the dive, diver A turns round to see that diver B has
switched to open circuit and breathing from a stage bottle, but is lying
on the cavern floor apparently unconscious. He comes to his senses after
a shake from his buddy. Diver B continues on OC and they exit the water
safely.

Post dive inspection of the unit reveals that the scrubber is solid and
is full of water.

The writer then speculates on what might have caused this:

CO2 contact during the drive to the dive site?

Water ingress due to faulty O ring or cracked canister?

Duff sofnolime?


His buddy (diver A) is reported to be Dr Jerome Meynie (snoopyloop.com) who dives a MK15.5 and holds the deepest CCR cave dive record of around 180m IIRC.

Very glad to hear its looking like a non fatal accident.