Rescue in Thailand

[andybrooks]

I remember there was an apparatus using Kirby Morgan BandMask back when I was active around 1970.  A Google search for "CDG sump rescue apparatus" turns up several references from 1960 onwards.

 

[Jenny P]

https://youtu.be/-esjQLvsgTs

Interesting Australian documentary on the rescue

Awesome !

 

[mrodoc]

I remember there was an apparatus using Kirby Morgan BandMask back when I was active around 1970.  A Google search for "CDG sump rescue apparatus" turns up several references from 1960 onwards.

Yup, I had a band mask stuck on me. Prior to that the full face mask concept was using a Normalair system. They used to have factory in my home town of Chard and were a subsidiary of Westlands.

 

[mrodoc]

I did get to use KM in the sea a few years later when we had a diving docs meeting at Exmouth. I remember jumping off the pier into the estuary and finding all rather unpleasand as I couldn't see sans spectacles, the system sprayed water at me to maintain humidity, and I certainly didn't like not having a mouth piece to breathe through.