citydiver
Contributor
I have a couple questions, I was just reading one of the threads about Spare Air and now I am wondering what I should do. I am going on a trip to Roatan with my husband in a couple of weeks and for my birthday someone gave me a Spare Air as a gift, they knew I was into diving and thought it would be a good gift. I thought it was a funny gift because on one of my checkout dives for Nitrox I was with my instructor about 70 feet down and noticed that my air was dwindling quicker that usual, but I thought maybe I was just nervous, well I checked my air and I had about 1300psi left and I double checked and thought damn I am low already, strange. So my instructor saw and said OK, well literally 2 min later I was down to 600psi. I signaled my instructor and we immediatley turned around and started up. I was very calm, kept telling myself you are fine, stay calm, accidents happen because people panic, breath slow...etc. We got to the saftey stop and about 1 min prior to leaving the safety stop I had to buddy breath...still very calm. Anyway to make a long story short..I had a small leak which was making my air go quick. We made it to the surface with no other problems and many lessons learned. One was to get my own equipment instead of renting...check for leaks, and I should have aborted the minute I thought my air was going faster than usual.......Anyway I got it as a gift/joke sort of thing with no intentions of ever needing it because now I watch my air like a freaking hawk, but after reading that thread should I just try and send it back? I don't even know if I could...got it a month ago would have to find out where it was purchased from etc....
I only dive warm water, on vacation...usually not deeper that 60 feet...
Thanks
I only dive warm water, on vacation...usually not deeper that 60 feet...
Thanks