This weekend, I was diving with a group of people I had never gone diving with before. One evening, I'm talking to this guy, an avowed warm-water weeny, and he's saying how much he hates throwing money away on dive gear. Turns out he's referring to a relatively new BC he bought. A local was dragging his gear around and put someone else's gear on top of it, puncturing the BC.
My initial response is, if the hole is small, why not just use a innertube patch and keep going. His response was that he didn't feel comfortable diving with something the manufacturer would no longer cover for defects.
::cough:: Okay.
"Besides", he says, "that patch wouldn't hold if I fully inflated the BC at depth."
I told him that if he's fully inflating his BC at depth, he has bigger problems than a small hole in his BC.
My initial response is, if the hole is small, why not just use a innertube patch and keep going. His response was that he didn't feel comfortable diving with something the manufacturer would no longer cover for defects.
::cough:: Okay.
"Besides", he says, "that patch wouldn't hold if I fully inflated the BC at depth."
I told him that if he's fully inflating his BC at depth, he has bigger problems than a small hole in his BC.