Which Rebreather?

[Mexican1978]

Boris looks good and is deliberately engineered to overcome many of the problems of the YBOD. However the owners seem to be doing the product development with lots of reports of having to return units for fettling.

The KISS sport is another properly engineered rebreather. It requires more input from the user instead of relying on troublesome electronics.

However there have been a lot of rebreather deaths the last year, people seem to be so used to this that they no longer attract much attention.

People using them say that they know the risks but ask them what the MTBF and failiure modes of an injector solenoid are and they don't know.

[Zeus]

Originally Posted by Mexican1978

People using them say that they know the risks but ask them what the MTBF and failiure modes of an injector solenoid are and they don't know.

If the solenoid fails, on or off, you just do the drills and go home. In effect, you'd be diving like a KISS user would be. I like RB's because even when bits fail, there's almost always a way of getting you home. Unrecoverable loop flood is about the only "Game Over" scenario.

If money was no object, I'm not sure. I like the radial scubber of the Boris. I like the ruggedness of the YBOD. All have areas requiring improvement.

Meg? No. Looks shiny but US-based is a non-starter for me. Also too new to be a known quantity. KISS? To simplistic and would restrict my diving.