Post Your Latest Gear Failure!

[boulderjohn]

Was taking off my new to me drysuit and popped one of my wrist seals. Luckily I was able to buy a replacement seal from a bystander.

Was that today?

 

[Pavao]

Primary light died last week in a cave, I was already exiting when it happened, about p.800'

It was somewhat user error and equipment acting up, the charger just didn't work as it should have been and did not charge the battery at all, and my fault that I wasn't more attentive to the fact that it had "finished" charging a lot quicker than it should have been, and the battery didn't feel warm at all when I unplugged it. Lesson learned.

The worth-every-penny Halcyon back up was working just fine

 

[boulderjohn]

Was taking off my new to me drysuit and popped one of my wrist seals. Luckily I was able to buy a replacement seal from a bystander.

I had a similar experience just this morning. I was packing my gear in my motel room in Santa Rosa, NM, and when I took my dry suit off the hanger rack, the neck seal snagged on a hook that was inexplicably on the end of the rack. It tore off a chink of silicone seal in a heartbeat. Fortunately, I keep spare seals on hand for just such an emergency, and it was quickly replaced. I spent the day diving in Rock Lake, and when I went to the Blue Hole late in the afternoon to get my tanks filled for tomorrow, I ran into a guy who had torn a wrist seal. Fortunately, I had a replacement for that, too. I figured I had to order a new neck seal anyway, so it would be no big deal to add a new wrist seal to the order. I had had that seal for years, and I could not for the life of me remember what it cost. I accepted what he offered, but if he finds out that it was too much, I will happily refund any overcharge.

 

[modustollens]

I was doing a deep diving course. Was about to jump in loaded up with a small pony bottle with the goal of hitting 40m - which would have been my deepest dive yet; when - BOOM! - air going everywhere loudly! Just as I was about to jump in the high pressure connection between the hose and the SPG on my main tank blew. Easy fix - swapped a different reg set up; but, 10 minutes later and that failure would have been in the deep - would have made for a good training opportunity given that we were practising switching to the pony to cover just a scenario like that.

Anyway, replaced my broken plastic SPG and the old style SPG/Depth Gauge/Bottom-Timer giant and drag inducing console for a nice and sleek metal SPG. Much nicer.

MT

 

[Storker]

Pretty mundane and undramatic stuff: on my last dive, my backup reg freeflowed when i got in the water. Breathed off that instead of my LH until about half tank, checked again and when it was OK I switched back to the LH reg. Took it to the shop for a service and tune-up the Monday after. My previous "gear failure" was my HP hose having developed a minor leak. Don't have a backup HP hose in my save-a-dive kit, so I got a new one the week after.

Like I said, pretty mundane.


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[WarrenZ]

I had a similar experience just this morning. I was packing my gear in my motel room in Santa Rosa, NM, and when I took my dry suit off the hanger rack, the neck seal snagged on a hook that was inexplicably on the end of the rack. It tore off a chink of silicone seal in a heartbeat. Fortunately, I keep spare seals on hand for just such an emergency, and it was quickly replaced. I spent the day diving in Rock Lake, and when I went to the Blue Hole late in the afternoon to get my tanks filled for tomorrow, I ran into a guy who had torn a wrist seal. Fortunately, I had a replacement for that, too. I figured I had to order a new neck seal anyway, so it would be no big deal to add a new wrist seal to the order. I had had that seal for years, and I could not for the life of me remember what it cost. I accepted what he offered, but if he finds out that it was too much, I will happily refund any overcharge.

That was me thank you for the hook up. Nice to meet a fellow scubaboarder.

 

[Belzelbub]

Not exactly a gear failure. It was, however, an assembly error that resulted in a sore jaw after diving.

Recently got my regs serviced. Breathe great, no problems whatsoever, with that part of the service. During the dive, however, the regulator does not feel quite right. I'm having to hold the mouthpiece a bit tighter than usual. That is unusual as I dive with a Seacure X-Type mouthpiece. Normally, I put it in my mouth, and it bonds well to my teeth with almost no pressure. I even have to adjust the reg in my mouth during the dive, which never happens. When I get home, I realize why. After service, the tech re-installed my mouthpiece upside down. I can't entirely fault the tech for this, it's something I'll check from now on.

For those who aren't familiar, the Seacure mouthpieces have a definite top and bottom. When molding, the instructions tell you which way to position the mouthpiece depending on whether you have a slight overbite (most) or a slight underbite. I have a slight overbite, as do most people. With the X-Type, this means that the mouthpiece should be positioned with the word SEACURE on the bottom. For some reason, this is opposite of the instructions they had for the Hi-Flow model.

 

[sheeper]

so just the other day I was making an ascent with a private student (some guiding and advanced training on a 70' dive) and went to shoot my DSMB. As I am just the awesome instructor, I was showing perfect buoyancy and trim while doing a perfectly smooth example of getting my marker ready. I clipped my marker to the end of my reel, did a perfect job of inflating it and let go of the marker while holding the reel. Perfect.

except the gate on the (brand new!) carabiner clip that attached the reel to the marker snapped off and the marker shot up all by it's lonesome self! a very impressive display. we made the ascent marker-less and the boat captain did spot my marker and retrieve it (I now owe him a beer).

 

[Dave616]

Suunto SK-7 Compass. Magically developed a crack on the edge. No clue how. I usually keep it protected with my computers. Now my DSS bungee mount is empty


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[buddhasummer]

Suunto SK-7 Compass. Magically developed a crack on the edge. No clue how. I usually keep it protected with my computers. Now my DSS bungee mount is empty


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A good excuse to buy the newly improved (?) SK8.