Press om engelsk insipration dödsfall
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Detta är crosspostat från RB och inspirationlistan.
Vad det handlar om är en utredning av ett inspiration dödsfall som hände för 2 (två) år sedan släppts i dagarna och de reaktioner som är i engelsk press.
Det är intressant att notera att den engelska pressen är lika okunniga som vår egen när det gäller dykning.
Vad som hände Ian är helt enkelt att han misshandlade sin apparat och tog inte de varning-signaler apparaten gar ifrån sig på allvar. Utan körde på ändå. Och detta är då fråpn en dykare som har mer erfarenhet än de flesta på denna lista.
Så Inspirationdykare!! - Håll diciplinen upp så vi slipper se ett liknade press-scenario i sverige.
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The coronor instructed the press to warn the diving community of his
concerns.
The Times:
A coroner yesterday warned divers to be 'very worried' about a controversial
piece of diving equipment after a former Royal Navy frogman became the 14th
person to die whilst using one.
Ian Swift, 41, suffered a series of fits when his £2500 computer controled
rebreathing device malfunctioned and fed him pure oxygen while he was 156 ft
below tho surface off the Dorset coast.
Michael Johnson, the West Dorset coroner examining the death of the retired
naval clearance diver, urged the manufacturers of the Buddy Inspiration
Rebreather to install more safety devices after being told that one in 100
users had lost their lives wgile using it.
Mr. Swift's girlfriend, Melanie Scholfield, said that he had returned the
equipment five times to the manufacturers, AP Valves, in Helston, Cornwall,
because of problems.
The diver, who helped to recover bodies after the Marchioness disaster in
1989, was part of a nine-strong team on a wreck ten miles off Portland Bill
in June 2000. His dive partner said that he suddenly collapsed, had fits,
and went grey.
Nicola Finn, spokeswoman for AP Valves said that there was nothing wrong
with the equipment as long as it was correctly used. She said "The figures
one in 100 fatalities do seem high but they can only have been made up.
Nobody would have the number we have sold. We have reason to believe Mr.
Swift had been warned: the alarm was going off while he was on the boat"
Verdict: accidental death.
The Mirror:
A Coroner has rapped breathing equipment after an ex-Royal Navey frogman
became the 14th diver to die while using it.
He said divers should be "very worried" about the Buddy
Inspiration Rebreather, which lets them stay longer at deep levels.
Ian Swift, 41, of Portland, died of a brain seizure when the computer-driven
device pumped too much oxygen into him nearly 200 ft down.
West Dorset coroner Michael Johnson said: "Fourteen deaths iis staggering."
Dorset local paper:
A FORMER Royal Navy diver from Portland suffered an epileptic fit and died
after his state-of-the-art equipment pumped a lethal amount of oxygen into
his body, an inquest heard.
West Dorset Coroner Michael Johnston has warned divers they should be "very
wary" of using the Buddy Inspirational re-breather after hearing that faults
in the computerised diving kit had caused the deaths of 14 people.
Other divers told the court that one in 100 Buddy Inspirational re-breathers
- which help people dive for longer with reduced decompression time - had
caused death and that "everyone" using the apparatus had reported having
problems.
The inquest into the death of 41-year-old Ian Alfred Swift, of Church Ope
Road, who was one of the first 20 people in the world to own the kit, heard
that he was one of 10 divers who had sailed on the boat Skin Deep to dive on
the wreck of the Empress of India.
But the sea was so rough that skipper Ian Taylor decided to change course
and dive on the Salsette, ten miles off Portland.
On the trip to the wreck on June 13, 2000, Mr Swift complained that the
alarm was going off on his kit, but he banged it on the rail of the boat,
complaining that the battery connections were faulty, and the alarm stopped.
When he and his diving buddy Karl Harmsworth were ready to dive he had said
that the carbon dioxide levels were "perfect".
Retired market policeman Mr Swift and his buddy dived first and went down 48
metres, swimming apart as they explored the wreck. Mr Harmsworth came to the
engine room and wanted to explore, so he motioned to Mr Swift, who had
experience of the engine room, to come over.
But as Mr Swift swam towards him he suddenly dropped to his knees and
started bringing part of his kit over his head. He switched to his
conventional mixed gas apparatus, by which time Mr Harmsworth was with him,
ready to take him to the surface.
Mr Harmsworth had his arm around Mr Swift, trying to get his own regulator
into Mr Swift's mouth when he started convulsing.
He said: "I thought when he took the mixed gas after the air of the
re-breather that he was going to be narked out of his head so I went over to
bring him up according to diving procedure.
"But then he started convulsing. I had inflated his gear, but I had
exhausted myself getting him that far, I was more buoyant than him and the
silt was clouding up the water. I had to release him."
Mr Harmsworth went back down to find Mr Swift, but he had risen to the
surface, where Mr Taylor raised the alarm and pulled him on board.
Mr Taylor, who said that Mr Swift was one of the few divers who carried out
thorough pre-dive checks, carried out resuscitation until the helicopter
arrived to take Mr Swift to Dorset County Hospital, but he was declared dead
on arrival.
Mr Swift's partner Melanie Schofield said: "Diving was Ian's life - he would
often dive several times a week.
"When he got the Buddy Inspirational he undertook specialist training to use
it. But every other month he would have to take it back to the manufacturer,
AP Valves, with faults.
"Ian wouldn't dive if he knew there was a fault in his kit."
Coroner Michael Johnston said that the Buddy Inspira-tional recycles air,
taking out carbon dioxide from the outward breath and automatically
calculating how much oxygen the diver needs.
He said: "I believe that Mr Swift's death was due to the re-breather
malfunctioning, whether he should have or could have known it was faulty or
not.
"I am going to record a verdict of accidental death, but I have to say that
I think the diving community should look very carefully at any piece of
equipment which has a possible one per cent fatality rate."
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