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If you were among the first batch of divers in the ’60s and ’70s or if you watch old school scuba diving shows like SeaHunt then you’ll know that there used to be animosity between the two different types of scuba divers; hard hat divers and open circuit divers. Today hard hat divers are limited to commercial divers but there are still two types of divers out there; open circuit and closed circuit. That and the hippie freedivers but we don’t talk about them so we don’t over inflate their egos…
As we all know scuba was invented by Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan in 1943 that changed the world as we know it and allowed people to breathe underwater. But what most don’t know is that rebreathers actually predate open-circuit scuba. A patent application was made in 1878 for a rebreathing device known as the Fleuss rebreather, invented by Henry A Fleuss of Siebe Gorman that recirculated Oxygen and was used in England. A few tweaks and changes over the years but recreational rebreathers, closed especially, weren’t that popular until the ’90s.
Now we’re looking into rebreather failure points so most of this is going to be expectedly negative against rebreathers but remember that there are thousands of rebreather divers out there and many of these faults and potential dangers weren’t fatal thanks to good training, practice and a great mindset on the diver’s part.
So I’m Mark from Simply Scuba and Are Rebreathers THAT Dangerous?!
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