kimbalabala
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We just got back from a week at Scuba Club Cozumel (had a great time). On our very first dive my husband couldn't descend. I was far enough away that I couldn't quite understand why he wasn't descending - and the guy on the dive boat was holding up weights in case he was just underweighted. My husband gave me the thumbs-down and we went to the boat. It turned out that every time he would evacuate the air from his BC it would re-inflate (like magic!). No harm done, as it was at the beginning of the dive (and the dive shop had it repaired before the next morning's dives). But it was a conversation starter. How would you handle it if the inflator malfunctioned at depth? What we came up with was we would disconnect the hose from the BC - but if this hadn't happened I don't think I would have thought of that in the midst of a snafu at depth. Are there other, better, different ideas? Would you recommend we practice this little maneuver? My first thought was to ditch the whole rig and share air with my buddy. I don't know which I could do quickest.
Feel free to move this to a different forum if I put it in the wrong place. It counted as an 'incident' to me ...
Feel free to move this to a different forum if I put it in the wrong place. It counted as an 'incident' to me ...