Aqua-Andy
Contributor
So I was reading these two threads
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/sherwood-scuba/402998-avid-bc-failure.html#post6306372
and
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/365071-bc-failure.html
Well they got me thinking, in over 200 dives I've had only one gear malfunction, this was during my cavern class during an OOA drill. What happened was I had to donate air, when the drill was over I dropped my backup out of my mouth and it started to free flow. I quickly put it back in my mouth and stuck my tongue in the mouth piece to try and stop it but this did not work so I promptly shut down that post and after a couple of seconds turned it back on and all was ok. After that incident I felt good about how I handled the problem, but that was two years and over 100 dives ago. We practice drills frequently (well maybe not as often as we should) but these are drills and at the start of them you pretty much know the outcome. This got me thinking is how would I react in a real emergency? How do you all practice for the day when things really go bad.
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/sherwood-scuba/402998-avid-bc-failure.html#post6306372
and
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/365071-bc-failure.html
Well they got me thinking, in over 200 dives I've had only one gear malfunction, this was during my cavern class during an OOA drill. What happened was I had to donate air, when the drill was over I dropped my backup out of my mouth and it started to free flow. I quickly put it back in my mouth and stuck my tongue in the mouth piece to try and stop it but this did not work so I promptly shut down that post and after a couple of seconds turned it back on and all was ok. After that incident I felt good about how I handled the problem, but that was two years and over 100 dives ago. We practice drills frequently (well maybe not as often as we should) but these are drills and at the start of them you pretty much know the outcome. This got me thinking is how would I react in a real emergency? How do you all practice for the day when things really go bad.