diver4life
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diver4life:Hello everyone,
I would like to know how easy/hard it is to overbreathe a reg. I had an incident in Coz a couple of days ago. As we were descending down I noticed my rental reg was breathing a little wet but I didn't think it was it was that bad. When we reached bottom around 60', we had to work pretty hard against the current to get with the DM and other divers.
Doug
Web Monkey:It's impossible to overbreathe a properly functioning, properly designed regulator. That said, it's entirely possible to overbreathe a poorly serviced or poorly designed reg.
PeCeDiver:Not true. :no
I had a stress situation at depth (50 meters, 150 feet) six months ago that forced my to bailout from my rebreather to my bailout bottle/reg. The regulator was a poseidon extreme which is probably one of the best deep regulators. Initially it did not deliver enough flow. I was breathing TX with 35% HE. This breathes more easily than air since HE is less dense. My SAC was probably around 70 to 80 liters/min because of a CO2 build up. So it is possible to overbreath a good regulator in perfect condition.
Web Monkey:I don't know anything about Poseidon, but if you could overbreathe it, it either wasn't a big enough or wasn't working right.
A first-class reg in good condition can deliver thousands of liters/minute (300 scfm or almost 8500 l/m). It's unlikley that you can suck anywhere near this much.
Terry