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Rebreather Fatalities

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 In the absence of a complete list of rebreather fatalities I have started to compile one.
 It is important that this information is available in one place.
 If you can add any facts to those below please contact me with them using this forum thread: http://www.scubabrucie.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35
 What I am looking for are Name, Date of Accident, Location, Unit.
  
Alessandro Dodi  6 December 2006, Italy, ?. Underwater photographer.
Robert Crawford  7 October 2006,  California, ?.
Harry Khachatoorian  17 September 2006, California, Inspiration
Stale Tveitane 16 August 2006, Norway, Megalodon. Cave dive.
Mahatma Robles 16 August 2006, California, Inspiration.
Grzegorz “Banan” Dominik 28 July 2006, Baltic, Inspiration.
David Bright   18 July 2006  Massachusetts, Inspiration. On Andria Doria
Maksim Sobolev 4 June 2006, Black Sea, Evolution
Rob Davie  22 April 2006, Egypt, Inspiration.
Fred Evans  4 April 2006, South China Sea
Lewis Gavin 25 February 2006, Australia, Inspiration.
Jackie Smith 1 January 2006, North Carolina
Harvey Harris  26 December 2005, ? .New York State. Died in swimming pool.
Marco Campolungo 10 December 2005, Italy, Voyager. Well known videographer.
Zak Jones 24 November 2005, Florida, Megalodon. PADI Course Director, Rebreather instructor trainer.
Penny Glover 21 November 2005, France, Evolution. BSAC Regional Coach for Northern Europe, Council Member and Instructor Trainer.
Jacques Filippi  21 November 2005,France, Inspiration
Paul Theriault  6 October 2005, Florida
Rolland Schoen 25 September 2005 , Switzerland,
Nigel Peter Lees  22 Sept 2005, New Zealand, Inspiration? Did not turn rebreather on.
Garry Tychansky 21 August 2005 Scotland, ?. Whilst making movie.
Jere Thorne 27 June 2005, Minnesota, Inspiration.
Keith Morris  17 June 2005, England, Megalodon. TDI Instructor Trainer
David Rampersad  7 May 2005, New York, ?. In swimming pool.
David Shaw 8 January 2005, South Africa, MK15.5
Edwin Girvan 24th May 2004, England, Inspiration.
Wiktor Bolek 1 May 2004 Inspiration
Peter McDowell 24 April 2004 Inspiration
Luca El Bombarolo 7 March 2004 Inspiration
Clemens Neuenhaus   26 October 2003  Inspiration
Earl Peterson August 2003 Inspiration
Thomas Rosenfeldt 6 February 2003 Inspiration
Robert Christopher Barrett 3 August 2002, Pennsylvania, Inspiration.
Dean Livesy  May 2002 Inspiration
Bernard Gonon  November 2001 Inspiration
Garrett Weinberg  23 June 2001 Inspiration
Steve Hughes  12 May 2001 Inspiration
Jan-Magnus Soerboe  24 May 2001 Inspiration
Andy Wilde  6 August 2000 Inspiration
Mick Brennan   1 July 2000 Inspiration
Dr. Max Hahn   June 2000 Inspiration  Rebreather instructor, doctor of physics, decompression expert.
Ian Swift   13 June 2000  England, Inspiration.  Former Royal Naval Diver.
Marten Van Der Weerdt 26 June 1999 Inspiration
Harry Norman Railing  25 May 1999 Inspiration
Keith Milburn 13 September 1998 Inspiration
Nic Gotto 24 July 1998 Inspiration
Bob Forster 20 June 1998 Inspiration
Paul Haydon 23 May 1998 Inspiration
 

 

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    Edward Penny

    Said this on January 31st, 2007 at 5:42pm:

    Would it not be more beneficial to state, with as much detail as possible, why these accidents occurred? That way, people can read, learn and understand how to become safer rebreather divers. I fail to see how listing fatalities with no details of the events is useful. I can think of no other reason for this list being here, other than to discourage people from using rebreathers.
    Please let me know if I’ve got the wrong end of the stick.
    Kind regards,
    Edward Penny

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    Beat Müller

    Said this on March 12th, 2007 at 7:36am:

    1) Correction to accident of Swiss Citizen Roland Schön of 25th September 2005: first name written with one “l” only; he dived with a german clone of an RB-80. main reason was a too low oxygen content in loop at end of dive in shallow waters. location was Zugersee (lake of Zug).
    2) deadly accident of sunday, 4th march 2007: Vierwaldstättersee (central part of Switzerland): Andrea Zepperitz, a female open water technical instructor, living in the Zurich area . died 2 days later in hospital. dived with a passive AMV-triggered SCR (rumors said it was german RB-80 clone). information also say it was during the ascent part of a training dive with her rebreather instructor. (I’m not authorized to disclose his name).

    cross check rebreatherworld.com

    regards
    Beat A. Mueller

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    David Pye

    Said this on April 5th, 2007 at 4:10pm:

    Surely it’s worth noting that some of these sad fatalities are not directly related to the fact that the divers were on rebreathers?

    e.g. a loss of buoyancy control and a fast ascent followed by DCI are not in themselves directly the fault of the rebreather, while a setpoint/scrubber failure obviously are.

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    Ben Haines

    Said this on January 19th, 2008 at 3:50pm:

    Greetings,
    I just wanted to post and ask for any comments on a quick note on Shipwrecks and my friend Jere Thorne. Jere was an expert on rebreathers and died using one. I am not a SCUBA diver but I want to get certified in Jere’s honor.

    He was an amazing man and I wanted to make sure this site new that.

    http://www.lakeshoredreams.com/blog/?p=24
    Regards,
    -Ben

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    James

    Said this on April 22nd, 2008 at 6:13pm:

    Lewis Gavin was my cousin and a good man. Let us remember these people for having lost their lives early.