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| Originally Posted by milldog can i ask why do you need your own O2 admin kit??
Graham |
The diving we do is at the higher risk end of diving, certainly a bend following a 20m dive is likely to be less serious than a bend from a 70m dive. Whilst we had the facility to deliver 'on-demand' O2, we did not have the facility to deliver constant flow.
Obviously an unconscious diver cannot use 'on-demand' but needs constant flow. Feedback from some quarters along with personal experience, would also lead me to believe that constant flow can ease the workload of the lungs even on a conscious casualty.
Further to this, I was on a boat last year that only had one O2 set, which meant that when we had an incident both divers could not use the O2. Even with one diver on the set, the O2 ran out around an hour before we hit shore. Luckily both myself and another CCR diver both had loads of O2 that we could use, so the buddy pair were fine.
Do you know what the current average Helo response time is?
So I decided that I wanted an O2 admin set, but I wanted a set that could be used with pin Index, Din, and possibly even Bullnose tanks. This is what we now have.
Juz