What BROKE

Or didn't work on your last dive trip or two?

And, what was your most spectacular career equipment failure?

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terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient
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"Popeye" <Popeye@Finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in message
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> Or didn't work on your last dive trip or two?
>
> And, what was your most spectacular career equipment failure?

Last time out, while gearing up, I heard a high-pressure leak. I shut the
valve and found that the o-ring in the SPG line had gotten kinked. (Stoopid
me - I'd taken off the hose to pack for a trip and hadn't put it back on
right.)

Not a big deal - especially since this happened on land. I fixed the
condition (only hand-tightening the hose since neither my buddy or I had a
wrench) and did a 40 minute dive. (28 ft max, 35-38 degrees). Called the
dive after 40 mins 'cause buddy was cold (diving wet).

Nothing too earth-shattering but Popeye's post looked lonely without a
response.

- David

Popeye wrote:
> Or didn't work on your last dive trip or two?
>
> And, what was your most spectacular career equipment failure?
>

Somehow my stage bottle got drained on the way to the dive.

Most spectacular was when a large strobe exploded against my side in the
middle of a dive. It seems water had got in, the resultant bang was like
a Very good kick from a mule. My ears were ringing and there was a green
haze in the water, that turned out to be residue from the explosion -
but it sure looked bad right after the boom.

Popeye wrote:

> Or didn't work on your last dive trip or two?

Pin broke on my Vyper wrist mount strap.

Wire tied it to my wrist for the dive...
>
> And, what was your most spectacular career equipment failure?
>


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Popeye wrote:
> Or didn't work on your last dive trip or two?

Tank valve (plugged manifold port) sprung a leak.

> And, what was your most spectacular career equipment failure?

My buddy's brain malfunctioned and he took off all his gear at ninety feet.

"Whistler" <whiNstOler@sSan.rPr.cAomM> wrote in message
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> Popeye wrote:
>> Or didn't work on your last dive trip or two?
>
> Tank valve (plugged manifold port) sprung a leak.
>
>> And, what was your most spectacular career equipment failure?
>
> My buddy's brain malfunctioned and he took off all his gear at ninety
> feet.

I hear he rolled back into his gear after a pretty spectacular 90 ft
(gearless) ESA and finished the dive.

It's about like jumping off the boat with an empty tank...
--

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storms
terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient
reason for remaining ashore." - Vincent van Gogh

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Popeye wrote:
> "David In NH" <dgintz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Popeye" <Popeye@Finalprotectivefire.com> wrote:
> >> And, what was your most spectacular career equipment failure?
> >
> >
> > Nothing too earth-shattering but Popeye's post looked lonely without a
> > response.
>
> Thank you!
>
> A perfect example- Extrapolate that-
> ...
> Next day, 3 spare hoses in the bag.
>
> Now I have 5 or 6.


I think my most noteworthy gear failure was a water leak into one of my
strobe heads, which caused various arcs, sparks and snaps while UW.

How many spare SS-200's should I carry?
Setting aside the cost, they weigh 8lbs each.


-hh

Popeye wrote:

> Or didn't work on your last dive trip or two?
>
> And, what was your most spectacular career equipment failure?
>

We were in Spain at the Costa Brava, and Quim briefed us"...
into the cave at 11m, wall at left shoulder, and come out
after 45'. Mat, will you make the taillight?

I stopped at the entrance of the cave with a bad feeling.
The LED on my charger hadn't been blinking normally, and the
cave dive hadn't been made known the evening before.

Quim sensed something and asked me the thumb, which I gave.
So my GF and I only did a relaxed dive at the cliff.
Back in the boat, I missed my Poseidon's secondary's
Membrane housing, and seconds later, my knife.
One french guy in returning group had found my knife, and
Quim handed me the reg housing with a deep grin.

The day before we'd paid a visit to the "Fighting Cocks", a
bar run by a never aging english lady. Must've been the
strong brown ale...

That was kind of funny, and told me to follow my feelings
when diving.

Another one , decades before, near letal was at the same
place. My Buddy asked me to follow in into a side passage
near the end of La Vaca cave. Never with a problem in narrow
passages, I agreed, though I knew my torch had only minutes
left.
Midwithin it stopped shining, and all sorts of evil thoughts
flooded my brains. Like going into a bigger section, and not
finding the way out. With this, I felt my breathing pattern
accelerate and go into inspiratory reserve till bottoming
there, and all of a sudden I felt I was going to rip off my
mask and reg out within the next 30 seconds, if not some
wonder happened, the air tasted diabolically sweet, like
aspartam,figs, with vanilla... I remembered what my french
Instructor had dyed us in... hands to the chest, hands lead
breathing, in...., and ouuuuuut, in, and ouuuut... some
seconds later, with a clear had, I banged with my torch
against the rocks, and my buddy shone his light between his
legs, so I could see where I crawled. There was rock only
inches away from every point od my crossection.
In blue water a minute later, I never felt so relaxed in my
whole life...

Matthias

Thus spake "Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM@gmail.com> :

>"Popeye" <Popeye@Finalprotectivefire.com> wrote in message
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>> Or didn't work on your last dive trip or two?
>
>HP hose developed a bubble along a good portion of the length of the hose...
>I seem to remember it leaking air, but it was probably a slow leak since I
>didn't consider it worth aborting the dive... I did make sure that I
>breathed that tank all the way down before switching to the other tank
>though...
>
>> And, what was your most spectacular career equipment failure?
>
>Can't think of any that I occurred directly to me that were that
>spectacular... Had a buddy once who wasn't that experienced, bit through his
>mouthpiece and then attacked me for my regulator even though we were
>probably within 10-15 ft of the surface...
>
>The "equipment failures" that I most remember are biological in nature --
>proof that Darwin sleeps... Things like, "Hey, we don't need no stinkin'
>cave line and markers"...
>
"Stupidity is a capital offense. It's just that sometimes Mother
Nature doesn't catch the offender" RA Heinlein
--
dillon

I didn't climb to the top of the
food chain to become a vegetartian.

"Dillon Pyron" <dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "Stupidity is a capital offense. It's just that sometimes Mother
> Nature doesn't catch the offender" RA Heinlein

Sometimes we get to learn from our mistakes... Sometime we don't and Darwin
is there with an express ticket to the big "oh shit"... Luckily for me,
Darwin is a heavy sleeper when I'm in the "yo! check this shit out" mode...