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[cmt489]

Seems that Health Canada has reviewed flaws in certain regulators and has recalled them. For more information, see this article or go to Health Canada's website.

[nydiver]

Seems that Health Canada has reviewed flaws in certain regulators and has recalled them. For more information, see this article or go to Health Canada's website.

Aeris has known about issues with the high pressure seats failing for some time, they finally put out the recall a week before DEMA. We had 3 regs fail and fortunately noone was hurt, 2 were quite experienced divers and it was just another day of diving with some excitment. The last one was a fairly new diver and she has decided to just give up diving she was scared so bad by the experience. No amount of apologies from us or Aeris will ever repair the emotional trama the inceident caused.

2 of the regs were not in the recalled serial numbers, instead they were serviced with the defect causing parts.

If you have an Aeris or Oceanic fdx10 or dvt GET IT SERVICED, EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO PAY!!! Is it worth your life? The shop gets $12 from oceanic/aeris to only replace the seat, I think that's a complete disservice to customers so we have been doing a full 1st stage service for the 12. Aeris actually began to give us crap for filing for a 2nd service kit in under a year on the same serial number. Who's best intrest do they have at heart?

So much for selling Aeris regs..... Sherwood anyone?

[cmt489]

But the difference is that this is no longer a voluntary recall by the company. Health Canada's recall is an official recognition and recall of the product. It is akin to the FDA recalling a drug (Health Canada does that here as well).