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[Closed] Has anyone ever suffocated inside a bivi bag?

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that bloke from INXS?


 
Posted : 19/09/2014 10:13 am
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Paula tried to get him to go camping, but he wasn't the outdoor type.


 
Posted : 19/09/2014 12:51 pm
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maybe the people are still in the bags and decomposing in remote forest spots. All the decomposition gases would make the bag expand and it would be a like a decomp human ravioli.

don't be silly. the gases would mean the bag would take off like a kid's balloon and float away. corpse-filled bivvy bags aren't constantly dropping from the sky ergo it is safe to sleep in them QED. simple science.


 
Posted : 19/09/2014 1:15 pm
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Never mind air can you get a good Wi-Fi signal inside a sealed bivi bag?


 
Posted : 19/09/2014 1:22 pm
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I think they were still bin liners, rather than your actual bivi bags. That might've been their problem.

😆 Well put!


 
Posted : 19/09/2014 1:29 pm
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"You wouldn't be able to breathe through a sealed goretex bivy."
Living proof, typing away, that you can. Of course all bags have a zip and no one is pretending that it's fresh mountain air in there.

Key word here mattsccm is "sealed". I'm prepared to bet your life you couldn't breath through a sealed goretex membrane.


 
Posted : 20/09/2014 2:54 pm
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Never worried mine has a hoop and a mesh door, never did it right up as condensation was a problem. I once tried to sleep in one of those bag ones, death may have occurred if I'd actually managed to sleep.


 
Posted : 20/09/2014 3:01 pm
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Double post from the dead


 
Posted : 20/09/2014 3:04 pm
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Double post from the [b]un[/b]dead

FTFY


 
Posted : 20/09/2014 3:26 pm
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Surely that wasn't the question? It would be impossible to seal a gortex bag as you would never get one, with a iive body onto the work bench with a seam sealeing machine. You have to have a zip.
I am assuming that in the contxt of the question sealed means zipped up.
And as I have said the amount of air passing through the fabric plus the fully zipped up zip is enough to keep you alive. I have done it several times.


 
Posted : 20/09/2014 7:27 pm
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facebook is a conspiriousy theorists most powerful tool - the idiotic masses will believe anything written on there.

Oh, so very, very true; I have a lot of fun shooting bloody great holes in the theories.
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maybe the people are still in the bags and decomposing in remote forest spots. All the decomposition gases would make the bag expand and it would be a like a decomp human ravioli.

Ooooo! Soup mummies! Yummy!


 
Posted : 20/09/2014 8:41 pm
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I'll fully zip up my Rab Storm and leave the mesh panel at the zip visible for only a few inches to keep the midges out but on every use I'll find throughout the night that I just need to open it and get some fresh air. The last time I used it I woke up,couldn't unzip it and got a bit panicky! Most times feeling like I'm suffocating. Probably best sleeping with a midge net on!


 
Posted : 21/09/2014 11:21 am
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I understand they are a very popular accessory for tory mp's, so there might be some element of truth to the facebook scaremongering.


 
Posted : 21/09/2014 12:11 pm
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I've had some pretty weird dreams in mine. Used to put it down to sleeping in churchyards but maybe I was slowly suffocating!


 
Posted : 21/09/2014 12:28 pm
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