Over the years I've observed people doing strange things while diving that go directly against the grain of common sense and dive training.
This past weekend while diving at a local quarry, I watched a diver at the entry area come out of the water with a cylinder, place it on the ground, pick-up another cylinder and carry it into the water. My curiosity go the best of me when he put on his mask started wallowing in about 4 feet of water. He was wrestling with a partially inflated BC, the "new" tank, and his regulator. All of this with his gear submerged.
As soon as he had his regulator attached (underwater), he cracked the valve and took a couple of test breaths. After a couple of water laced breaths, he told his buddy that he was taking the *$^%#* thing back to the dive shop becuase they told him it was an environmentally sealed first stage and it was full of water!
I couldn't resist asking him about what he was doing and he insisted that he was told that he could swap-out his tank underwater so he was trying it out for the first time in shallow water.
Trying not to roll my eyes or laugh, I suggested that he go back to the shop that sold him the regulator and have them show him how to do it in the shop's pool.
Oh to be a fly on the wall of the LDS when he takes it back!
This past weekend while diving at a local quarry, I watched a diver at the entry area come out of the water with a cylinder, place it on the ground, pick-up another cylinder and carry it into the water. My curiosity go the best of me when he put on his mask started wallowing in about 4 feet of water. He was wrestling with a partially inflated BC, the "new" tank, and his regulator. All of this with his gear submerged.
As soon as he had his regulator attached (underwater), he cracked the valve and took a couple of test breaths. After a couple of water laced breaths, he told his buddy that he was taking the *$^%#* thing back to the dive shop becuase they told him it was an environmentally sealed first stage and it was full of water!
I couldn't resist asking him about what he was doing and he insisted that he was told that he could swap-out his tank underwater so he was trying it out for the first time in shallow water.
Trying not to roll my eyes or laugh, I suggested that he go back to the shop that sold him the regulator and have them show him how to do it in the shop's pool.
Oh to be a fly on the wall of the LDS when he takes it back!