Always soak and rinse all our equipment after each dive, long soak, rinse and clean after a trip. My wife and dive buddy has a Bio Life travel bc that she loves, it is about 3 years old and has around 200 dives on it ( I know basically brand new but we don't get to dive but on vacations). The power inflator stuck once on our last trip to Bonaire. This occurred as we were kitting up so it was not a danger. 15 dives later and never had a problem. Thinking about taking it to our lds for service and wondered if an annual service is needed for a bc? We have our regs done every year but maybe the bc should also be serviced also. Do you get your bc serviced and how often? Tanks Bill