If y'all dont mind one stoopid chipping in on the subject for a change. You wanna argue how many wkpp deaths are/arent wkpp deaths, go start yer own flaming thread.
Now. What follows is a copy, reproduced without any permission whatsover from an email in my archive. For the record, this email was sent by someone you most probably dont know, and copied here by *me* - which is yet another someone you dont know. Or to rephrase, the data in this post is worth exactly the amount you paid for it. Which is probably twice as much as the average worth of any data on the Internet in general.
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I don't have an Inspiration, never dove one and have intention of ever using one so I am not the right source on this, but here is what I know from [cencored by me - Bl]
14 people have died while diving an Inspiration. It's estimated that there are over 2000 Inspirations out in the field, although it's hard to be sure because the manufacturers won't tell you!
That's about 1 diver in 143 (0.7%).
Electrolung: 3 in 150 - 2%
Cis Mk 4 + 5: 3 in 100? - 3%
Halcyon: 1 in 50(?) - 2% (50 might be a generous figure)
CCR2000: 1 in 12(?) - 8%
Frog: 1 in 1(?): 100%
Draeger: Don't know. Anyone?
MK15/15.5/16: ZERO deaths in civilian use, and literally millions of diving hours done when taking into account at least 4 (?) different Navy use them for the last 25 years.
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Now.. what does that tell us ? Sweet F.A., thats what it tells us.
And KN, while I *do* appreciate your point of view and credibility on the subject, the approach you have taken to discuss BYBOD deaths is not even quack science. Sorry.
You might want to visit the uk.rec.scuba newsgroup, by the way. The occasional "d**k length contests" in which folks brag about the amount of "extra time" they have managed to squeeze out of their scrubbers over and beyong the prescribed three hours defies comprehension. Or, at least, defies *my* comprehension.
Have a nice dive.
