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... But the greater practical danger in rebreathers is complacency, followed closely by lack of experience and lack of proper training.
oddly enough you don't seem to be seeing a lot of inexperienced and poorly trained CCR divers perishing. I think there is actually a lot of evidence that complacency is often the product of a lot of experience and a lot of training and too much confidence. You see a remarkable number of experienced divers making fatal mistakes on mundane dives.
One of the big challenges, in my book, is to maintain a healthy level of humbleness and assume that while training and experience are key, one also needs to increase vigilance as they enter the realm of "experienced" and constantly resist the temptation to think you are in any way above making stupid mistakes.
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