Diver-6873
Contributor
OK folks, here is a weird one. We live in the islands and shore dive 8-10x per week. Our gear is in the back of the pickup from the house to the dive sites and between dives. On Wednesday, just into dive #2 I noticed a small hole (~1mm or less) had developed in my wife’s aqualung pearl BCD a few inches away from the upper dump valve. It was a shallow dive so we completed it without incident.
Upon surfacing we inspected the hole and it appeared like a small burn hole. What we think actually happened was that the flip-macro lens on her GoPro in her gear box was aimed in such a was during our surface interval that the sun burned the hole (remember using magnifying glasses to burn bugs when you were young ..... before everyone had their eyes glued to game systems and phones, the same concept)...
We have a friend at our local shop trying to repair the hole now, but wanted to see if anyone here has had success repairing a similar sized hole in a similar location on a similarly constructed BCD.... just in case we need to get creative.
Lesson learned, keep the camera and flips out of the sunlight....
Thanks!
Upon surfacing we inspected the hole and it appeared like a small burn hole. What we think actually happened was that the flip-macro lens on her GoPro in her gear box was aimed in such a was during our surface interval that the sun burned the hole (remember using magnifying glasses to burn bugs when you were young ..... before everyone had their eyes glued to game systems and phones, the same concept)...
We have a friend at our local shop trying to repair the hole now, but wanted to see if anyone here has had success repairing a similar sized hole in a similar location on a similarly constructed BCD.... just in case we need to get creative.
Lesson learned, keep the camera and flips out of the sunlight....
Thanks!