Does this really ever happen? How often has /does a regulator actually fail?

[TMHeimer]

I may have mentioned this years ago (on this thread....), but once I was diving solo and using my pony bottle. While walking into the water I found it wasn't giving any air when I inhaled (I know, check this out before gearing up, but I, like this thread, was "young"). Repair guy said it got that way due to lack of use over maybe a couple of years.

 

[Jimchris]

I've had the servo valve on a Jetstream/Odin stick in the full open position, gives a new appreciation to how much gas they can deliver. Thankfully it was at the surface and the dive easily aborted.

 

[TMHeimer]

I may have mentioned this years ago (on this thread....), but once I was diving solo and using my pony bottle. While walking into the water I found it wasn't giving any air when I inhaled (I know, check this out before gearing up, but I, like this thread, was "young"). Repair guy said it got that way due to lack of use over maybe a couple of years.

Almost all of my recent diving has been 30' or less, so I don't use the pony. But perhaps the failure of the pony reg back then was one reason why I do practice CESA regularly.

 

[happy-diver]

You really do come up with the most genius ideas, for you!