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There are at least five untrained Inspiration users. Used to be six. Martin Parker knows who they all are. He can't legally make them do a course since they already own a unit by legitimate means, ie. second hand purchase. He will give factory support in some cases but not in others. Anyone can buy a box second hand and go dive it. There is no law against that. Natural selection will soon get rid of the people who don't do their homework.
One of the best cave divers in the UK, possibly Europe, has no Inspiration qualifications, he has been diving for years. It is generally accepted in the Inspiration world that untrained users are generally very proficient divers and tend to seek out more information than the Mod 1 course can teach them. All the deaths to date have been trained users - NO untrained users have died and there are very few reports of homebuilders dying on rebreathers.
There are many, many Mod 3 untrained Inspiration users who use trimix in the unit, despite having only a Mod 1 certification. No one frowns on this practice as it is generally considered safer to be on mix than air.  |