Who has had to bailout?

Have you ever had to bailout?

  • Yes, due to a flooded loop

    Votes: 31 23.7%
  • No, never

    Votes: 44 33.6%
  • Yes, due to failed electronics

    Votes: 18 13.7%
  • Yes, due to loss of gas in the rebreather

    Votes: 9 6.9%
  • Yes, for another reason not listed

    Votes: 50 38.2%

  • Total voters
    131

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Capt Jim Wyatt

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I am curious as to who has had to bailout to open circuit and why?
 
Hadn't properly tightened the hose clips on the DSV during my MOD1. Leak got worse resulting in a bailout when I couldn't breathe. Lived and learned.
 
Yes

1. Once because I felt uncomfortable, and wasn't sure what was going on. So bailout to get some sanity breaths, before returning to the loop.

2. Once because I was feeling out of breath. I would normally have flushed the loop and stopped working, but had an inexperienced buddy. So went for the safest option, bailout and surface. The main reason is I had been swimming very hard for a considerably period and was just out of breath.

3. Once because I was an idiot. Diving in zero visibility with a mask leak and I burned through the DIL clearing the mask. When I realised, I plugged the off board into the loop, shut off the ADV and ran the DIL manually. Strictly not a bailout, but we did abort, because it totally freaked my OC buddies out.
 
Yes, due to a CO2 hit. Scrubber broke through after long car trip prior to diving. I did one dive on fresh scrubber on day 1, no issues. Drove about 5 hours to second location. Did next dive on Day 2 with the same untouched scrubber. Very quickly had symptoms of anxiety, frustration, and elevated breathing rate. I bailed out after a couple minutes of this and assended safely. I changed out the scrubber and continued diving later that day.
 
Three times. Once my fault, once the Revo’s fault, once the cave’s fault (which is probably my fault)
 
Not 'flooded' but water in the loop...got a bit of cocktail. Now I suck a negative overnight.

That’s really bad for your counterlung.
 
Personally, no
Friend did when he had to puke underwater. We kept checking in on him and he kept signaling that he was OK.

*Not counting training or practice, those don't really count here*
 
Never but my wife did due to a flood from a tear in the adv diaphragm
 

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