So I was doing my last 2 AOW dives.
Dive one, it's time to end the dive and start heading to our safety stop. I'm the only one on the dive with my instructor because I missed these dives due to getting sick. So he signals for me to deploy my sausage. I pull it out, grab my octo, put it under the smb, and away it goes. No problems whatsoever.
Surface interval: I retrieve my marker from the back of the boat after I got my bc off. It has about 6 inches of water in it. I deflate it and get get all the water out. I roll it tight and clip it back on my gear after moving my bc to my 2nd tank.
Dive two, it's time to end the dive again. My instructor signals for me to deploy again. I've got it out, got my octo again, I'm pumping air into the bottom, but nothing is happening. I give it about 5 pumps of air. I try smaller bursts of air. My instructors puts his hands out, so I give it to him. He tries two or 3 times and nothing. WTF? There's a small whole which should let air in from the bottom. We ended up doing an oral inflate to the valve. He says he's never seen that happen before. One of the other divers on the boat said that they'd seen it happen once.
Once I got on the boat, I did a visual on it and I could clearly see through the hole into the bladder area of the sausage. My guess is a little water was still in there and it was some how blocking the air from passing through. The water wanted to go down and the air wanted to go up and the hole wasn't large enough with the added pressure of depth. Just a guess.
Has anyone else had this happen to them?
I bought this SMB 8 Foot High Viz Orange SMB "Ocean Model" after seeing the Piranha rep post a link with some deals. It has the cheap plastic clip, so I removed it and put a metal ring and a brass bolt snap on it.
Dive one, it's time to end the dive and start heading to our safety stop. I'm the only one on the dive with my instructor because I missed these dives due to getting sick. So he signals for me to deploy my sausage. I pull it out, grab my octo, put it under the smb, and away it goes. No problems whatsoever.
Surface interval: I retrieve my marker from the back of the boat after I got my bc off. It has about 6 inches of water in it. I deflate it and get get all the water out. I roll it tight and clip it back on my gear after moving my bc to my 2nd tank.
Dive two, it's time to end the dive again. My instructor signals for me to deploy again. I've got it out, got my octo again, I'm pumping air into the bottom, but nothing is happening. I give it about 5 pumps of air. I try smaller bursts of air. My instructors puts his hands out, so I give it to him. He tries two or 3 times and nothing. WTF? There's a small whole which should let air in from the bottom. We ended up doing an oral inflate to the valve. He says he's never seen that happen before. One of the other divers on the boat said that they'd seen it happen once.
Once I got on the boat, I did a visual on it and I could clearly see through the hole into the bladder area of the sausage. My guess is a little water was still in there and it was some how blocking the air from passing through. The water wanted to go down and the air wanted to go up and the hole wasn't large enough with the added pressure of depth. Just a guess.
Has anyone else had this happen to them?
I bought this SMB 8 Foot High Viz Orange SMB "Ocean Model" after seeing the Piranha rep post a link with some deals. It has the cheap plastic clip, so I removed it and put a metal ring and a brass bolt snap on it.
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