Like any other specialized activity, rebreather guys have their own termonology.   Here's a glossary of terms / slang and definitions that have shown up on the list.   Warning: a number of these were suggested in jest.  But many of them do actually occur.

"on bag, off bag" = the points in time where one begins or stops breathing from the loop.

"no bubbles, no troubles" = after the dip check, everything's ready to go diving.

"sucking and blowing" = the start of a CO2 buildup, and the beginning of a really bad dive.

"tamping one's canister" = well, I'm sorry, maybe that one was a little mean.

"in the loop" = knowing or learning something related to the discussion at hand.

"drowned lime" = means more than a flooded canister, it means lime with water covering the active surface.

"Suckstarting"- pre-breathing the absorbant to get the reaction going.

"Phallocline"-the boundary layer between "really cold!!" deep water and relatively warm surface water, the zone where your dick disappears somewhere behind your bellybutton.

"Clusterflush" - purging the loop with diluent to establish a known FO2 when you have no idea what you're breathing - like when your electronics "salt fry".

"Limey" - A Buddy Inspiration Owner. ;)

"P-vent" - directing the vented bubbles on ascent up the neck of your wetsuit while in a heads-down position for the purpose of removing urine.

"Guage Monkey" - Those annoying CCR users who feel the impusle to check their PO2 every 2.6 seconds during dive.

"couch diving" - Wearing your rebreather while watching CNN in order to test out a new feature or method of operation.

"keyboard diver" -- Term for those who spend much more time typing about diving than actually doing it.

"hickey-test" = testing the direction-valves with hose-ends at the cheeks.

WKPPD = WKPP Depth = 280 feet - You do not have bottom time until you've hit this point.   Rich says: "I will henceforth use this depth as the cut-off for considering it 'bottom time'"

"Hawaiian Method" = method of in-water recompression (IWR)

"goober-juice", or "lung juice" = The disgusting slime that comes out of the hoses after a long dive.

"counterlung eating fish" = These are the fish that attack your counterlung in order to produce a TLF (total loop failure).  Very rare.  Very scary.   And they only attach Rich

"warm fuzzies" = that feeling when you know that you have many hours of breathing gas on your back.

"stroke" = Favorite term of Florida cavers which is applied to anybody who dives without proper knowledge or intelligence.

"end of the line" = Yet another caver term, used and abused by rebrether guys when talking about extreme rebreather diving.

This page last updated: January 23, 2002