Feeling lucky? Russian O2 rebreather on Craigslist

[Matt S.]

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/spo/3893006133.html

"Ida-71 russian Scuba rebreather $350.00 serious buyers only"

I had to look this thing up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IDA- ... 167777.JPG

NOT MY AD, I just thought it was interesting... and scary.

[Desert Diver]

Wow! My chance to get into a rebreather for cheap.

[Desert Diver]

Wow! My chance to get into a rebreather for cheap.

[Matt S.]

Nothing could go wrong, eh, Comrade?

[Desert Diver]

No! And no confusing directions. You can just do it like you want to.

[spatman]

Russian rebreather dives YOU!

[Mortuus]

Collectible item imo

[Jeremy]

I bought it, my ex needed a system

[Matt S.]

Russian rebreather dives YOU!
I bought it, my ex needed a system

I enjoyed these replies.

[Linedog]

Russian Rebreather, don't leave land without it!

[CaptnJack]

O2 rebreathers actually pre-dated the invention of open circuit scuba. They are pretty safe units since they are depth limited. 20ft max since you don't have any diluent to lower the ppO2 in any way. The one on the wiki site is obviously pristine enough to dive. The $350 price makes me think the CL one is not in great shape though. Maybe Comrade Cameron will buy this one and show it off sometime?

[kdupreez]

Some of these are modified to be full CCR's. Not my cup of tea to home build my own deep diving breathers though.. but, its been done.

But as-is you can either dive it as a pure O2 rebreather or as a semi closed nitrox rebreather.

quite frankly, all you are probably buying is the canister housings (it has dual canisters) and the loop and mouth piece, the cage/housing and maybe the counter lung.

i think it will be cheaper to buy a used KISS classic and much safer..

[Matt S.]

I wouldn't buy a rebreather from 40 years in the future much less one from 40 years ago.

[kdupreez]

Well, if it was a MK15.5 military breather from the early 70's it would probably be worth around $10k and they are still actively being used today in some amazing dives.

Dave Shaw used a MK15.5 down to almost 1,000ft

[Desert Diver]

And that worked out well.

[kdupreez]

yeah because it was his 200th career dive and he got caught in a line entanglement. had nothin to do with his breather.. pretty much 100% user error.

[spatman]

yeah because it was his 200th career dive and he got caught in a line entanglement. had nothin to do with his breather.. pretty much 100% user error.

And I'm sure the new gear added for that dive and a body retrieval had nothing to do with it.

[Mortuus]

yeah because it was his 200th career dive and he got caught in a line entanglement. had nothin to do with his breather.. pretty much 100% user error.

And I'm sure the new gear added for that dive and a body retrieval had nothing to do with it.

I'd also categorize the addition of new equipment for a 900ft dive as user error.

yeah because it was his 200th career dive and he got caught in a line entanglement. had nothin to do with his breather.. pretty much 100% user error.

Wasn't it his 333rd? Not that it makes the slightest bit of difference... No one with so few dives has any business at 900ft.

[CaptnJack]

quite frankly, all you are probably buying is the canister housings (it has dual canisters) and the loop and mouth piece, the cage/housing and maybe the counter lung...

So just about complete then?

I suspect the counter lung on the CL one is rotted to no goodness, I think they were a natural rubber.

[Joshua Smith]

Russian rebreather dives YOU!

It's worse. It's Soviet.

[winte.r]

yeah because it was his 200th career dive and he got caught in a line entanglement. had nothin to do with his breather.. pretty much 100% user error.

Do you think he would have survived with a full face mask? I've seen that video and I thought it was an exertion related black out. I've read about crazy navy experiments where they narc'ed their divers out to the point of black out but they were 'safe' because they were wearing masks. I don't know anything about deep diving, did he have some sort of tiny time limit to be at 890?

Btw discount divers has a Dolphin for $999.....and I know someone on this board who would beat any price they offer to get rid of theirs

http://www.discountdivers.com/fx/draege ... ather.html

[kdupreez]

Do you think he would have survived with a full face mask?

probably not, he needed to do about 7-8 hours of deco iirc.