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Drowning death spotlights problem with older military dive vests
« on: November 15, 2022, 07:04:29 am »
Drowning death spotlights problem with older military dive vests
By Kyle Rempfer
 Nov 14, 09:47 AM
 

Army Special Operations Command will test new programmable swim vests after a Green Beret drowned during a roughly one mile swim in a quarry at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, while preparing for combat diver school in fall 2021.

Staff Sgt. Paul Lincoln Olmstead was the second Green Beret to drown during dive-related training in 2021. An airman also drowned at his service’s dive school in 2020 under circumstances similar to those of Olmstead.

The new programmable vests ― which are found on the civilian market ― automatically inflate using carbon dioxide, or CO2, cartridges when a swimmer sinks below a set depth.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/2022/11/14/drowning-death-spotlights-problem-with-older-military-dive-vests/
« Last Edit: November 15, 2022, 07:06:27 am by rangerrebew »
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