I have zip seals on my wrists, just not on my neck. I did put the wrist seals to good use in Canada over new Year's when I had to change one out.
Gear Failure Fears?
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gcbryan
, Feb 28 2006 01:21 AM
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Posted 01 March 2006 - 11:36 AM
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 01 March 2006 - 01:33 PM
remember I am in the water just about every night and have been teaching solid for 4 years, diving for 14. If a gear failure is going to occur, I've probably been standing somehwere nearby. The full neck seal peel this weekend was a new one though. LOL!
Ah, but I've been diving for 45 years (although not continuously but during every decade since the 60's) and do 250-350 dives a year. During that time I've had the usual mask and fin straps break of course, but only one first stage failure, one reg failure, one debris tube clog (total failure, and the worst of the failures by far!) and the computer failure.
However, I'm referring to just failures of MY equipment. I only dive with a buddy 20% of the time and they have had more equipment (and other) failures than I have. Assume you are also including equipment failures on your students? I just assumed we were talking about personal equipment in answering the question.
Fortunately my primary computer (grey matter) hasn't failed me yet!
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Posted 01 March 2006 - 02:15 PM
The regulator failures have been mine - guess I'm just lucky that way. My tech instructor won't let me near his compressor, go figure! 
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 01 March 2006 - 02:17 PM
The regulator failures have been mine - guess I'm just lucky that way. My tech instructor won't let me near his compressor, go figure!
Yikes! As long as I'm carrying at least one of my ponies, I don't fear the first stage failures as much. Didn't have one when I had the failure in Thailand, but I was diving buddied up with one of the instructors so it wasn't a problem
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Posted 01 March 2006 - 02:28 PM
In Fiji everyone had a camera and photographers make lousey buddies, there were only seven guest on the liveaboard so sometimes while exploring a bommie you wouldn't see anyone till the end of the dive when we gathered around the top which just happened to be at safety stop depth.
On one dive the DM had trouble clearing and for some strange reason we were all still within sight of one another at 90' when he caught up, just then a woman blew an O-ring and by the time he donated his 2nd she was OOA. Timing and good luck are everything!
and redundancy, especially when diving "solo", even if you don't think you are solo...
"The most important thing is to never stop breathing"... ITB
Actually, the WORST day of diving is better than the BEST day at work...
and... my life is not measured by the number of breaths I take, but by the number of breaths I take UNDER WATER
"I see you are no stranger to pain." -- "I was married... TWICE!!!" HOT SHOTS, PART DEUX
Actually, the WORST day of diving is better than the BEST day at work...
and... my life is not measured by the number of breaths I take, but by the number of breaths I take UNDER WATER
"I see you are no stranger to pain." -- "I was married... TWICE!!!" HOT SHOTS, PART DEUX
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Posted 01 March 2006 - 03:23 PM
Yikes! As long as I'm carrying at least one of my ponies, I don't fear the first stage failures as much. Didn't have one when I had the failure in Thailand, but I was diving buddied up with one of the instructors so it wasn't a problem
None have been while submerged - phewey. NEVER underestimate the value of a pre-dive safety check!
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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