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#120
Oriskany death
kimwhite - 11/16/2009 9:12 PM
Category: General
Replies: 6

A guy apparently died diving the Oriskany on Saturday (Nov. 14). Does anyone have any more information on this? The news story that came out today about it didn’t mention anything about whether he was diving with a buddy ...
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Jen-Michael - 11/16/2009 10:14 PM
Here is what I believe is a first hand account: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/4852846-post11.html
From what I got from other posts/boards it was a RB diver who was at technical depths, and he was brought to the surface by buddies. I have no further information as to how many hours he had on the unit, his experience, or whether anyone has figured out any possible cause.

It’s been a rough week for RB divers as there was another RB death on the Vandenberg the day before (11-13). http://seaduction.com/scuba-diving/vandenberg-death-rebreather/
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kimwhite - 11/18/2009 7:46 PM
huh. wonder if it was a problem with the equipment. was the other diver using the same RB as the oriskany diver?
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Jen-Michael - 11/19/2009 9:31 AM
I haven’t heard any details regarding which rebreather either used, with rebreathers there are too many variables to consider that usually it’s never an incident because someone was using rb a vs rb b. There’s all the physiological factors, equipment maintenance (which can be a very large and meticulous task with rbs), experience on the particular unit, how closely he was monitoring the sensors which tell you your current PO2 readout, those sensors can fail and give you a false reading, this list can go on forever. I do know that the rb used in the Oriskany incident, is being shipped to DAN so they can perform some sort of post-incident inspection of it along with the rest of his equipment. Source: http://www.fox4now.com/Global/story.asp?S=11519332

I’m sure what ever they (DAN) find will end up in an upcoming issue of Alert Diver.
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FirefightingDiver - 11/29/2009 10:01 AM
I know the people who were with him, He had a rebreather malfunction at 140’ and it sent him into cardiac arrest.
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FirefightingDiver - 11/29/2009 10:03 AM
From what I was told it was a filter installation error on the RB
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firediver57 - 12/01/2009 8:36 PM
If you will go to www.SEAduction.com and check for the article there you can get info. Mike Ange is the writer and he does forensics on scuba fatalities and I think he covered this one. There will probalby be info there.