So Al and I are going diving at Fantasy lake today. This is a quarry. Dive shop at quarry has been closed for several years. Owner (Doay) lives next to quarry. Air is 43. Water is 53. We get suited up and into the water and Al informs me that his computer has died. There is an E8 error message and the battery that was 70% yesterday is now dead. Now we really don't need the computer since we know we will be within NDL but this also means that he has no way to monitor his air supply and we are not willing to dive without tracking air supply.
After checking over the phone and confirming that E8 is really death we think about it for a minute. Al goes up to the house and asks Doay (sp) if there is a reg available. He is lent one at no charge.
Correct Fantasy Lake regulator service goes as follows.
1. Wipe the layers of dust and dirt off the regs.
2. Hook to tank and confirm the air pressure reads correctly.
3. Breath on the primary reg spitting out any dust sucked in.
4. Try the secondary reg. No joy. No air flows.
5. Push purge. Reg freeflows.
6. Turn reg upside down and hit a couple times and some sand falls out and free flow stops.
7. Breath again but still does not flow.
8. Peer inside and see some clay/sand down inside.
9. Take screwdriver push inside and chop at clay/sand.
10. Turn upside down and shake as a pile of clay and insect parts fall out.
11. Repeat steps 9, 10 until nothing more falls out.
12. Get bottle of water, pour into mouth piece and shake and pour out the dark brown muddy water.
13. Repeat step 12 about 6 times until the the water runs out somewhat clear.
14. Breath on regulator and confirm that it now works.
15. Alter dive plan so that we do not go deeper than 30 ft.
16. Have a nice 46 minute dive.
After checking over the phone and confirming that E8 is really death we think about it for a minute. Al goes up to the house and asks Doay (sp) if there is a reg available. He is lent one at no charge.
Correct Fantasy Lake regulator service goes as follows.
1. Wipe the layers of dust and dirt off the regs.
2. Hook to tank and confirm the air pressure reads correctly.
3. Breath on the primary reg spitting out any dust sucked in.
4. Try the secondary reg. No joy. No air flows.
5. Push purge. Reg freeflows.
6. Turn reg upside down and hit a couple times and some sand falls out and free flow stops.
7. Breath again but still does not flow.
8. Peer inside and see some clay/sand down inside.
9. Take screwdriver push inside and chop at clay/sand.
10. Turn upside down and shake as a pile of clay and insect parts fall out.
11. Repeat steps 9, 10 until nothing more falls out.
12. Get bottle of water, pour into mouth piece and shake and pour out the dark brown muddy water.
13. Repeat step 12 about 6 times until the the water runs out somewhat clear.
14. Breath on regulator and confirm that it now works.
15. Alter dive plan so that we do not go deeper than 30 ft.
16. Have a nice 46 minute dive.
