Yes. If you don't buy your gear form them, you will surely die.TheRedHead:My LDS had several copies of that article laminated and displayed on their counters today.
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Yes. If you don't buy your gear form them, you will surely die.TheRedHead:My LDS had several copies of that article laminated and displayed on their counters today.
CIBDiving:but isn't your LDS the one that loves to screw anybody who has gear they didn'y buy from Them?
miketsp:I have to disagree with this. I don't have any access to a pool and even if I did I'm not sure what a 2metre dive is going to prove in comparison with a good visual inspection & surface testing.
If you don't feel ready to handle any sort of equipment failure at depth then get more training or get a better buddy.
RonFrank:Anyone read this?
To summarize newish diver buys a Reg online. The first stage is defective, has metal shavings in it from manufacture, and blows out.
Diver freeflows, freaks, rockets to the surface and panics at the surface. Diver is OK after a rescue by the Boat Mate (DM).
Lesson - Don't buy your stuff online (in so many words). Actually to be fair they did indicate that some online dealers do check out the equipment before they sell it. However based on the underlying tone, it's very obvious that the message really is.. don't buy online.
But what the Ell??
The manufacture has NO responsibility in making sure that the equipment they sell works, and is NOT defective?
I've never been clear on why it would be an LDS responsibility to ensure that brand new equipment works? When I buy most ANYTHING, it's is NOT the responsibility of the retailer to open the box, and test it before a sale.
cerich:In case anybody wants to know, they couldn't bother to reply...
MoonWrasse:But did this blowout occur while the diver was riding his bike underwater?
cerich:In case anybody wants to know, they couldn't bother to reply...
MikeFerrara:As a manufacturing engineer of 15 years, where do I start? No...you couldn't be more wrong. 6 sigma is, for lack of a better description, a problem solving methodology that applies statistical tools that have been around just about forever.
The wide spread implimentation of statistical process and statistical quality control has not and never will negate the need for in process audits or the incomming insprction of recieved components. In fact without those instections (measurements) there won't be any statistics. Additionally, regardless of the SPC used or the measured capability of a product or process 100% functional testing of safety related products and components is still standard oporating procedure.
As some one who has been more than a little involved with 6 sigma implimentations and SPC, I'd love to see any data you have that shows a process or product that is thousands of times less failures than before such buzz words were around for us to fill our BS bingo cards with.