| Some interesting lessons there.
The mouthpiece is a single point of loop integrity failure which is never checked using the standard +ve and -ve checks, I used to get a little water into the loop and couldn't work out where it was coming from, I tightened the Mouthpiece zip tie and I now get no unknown water in the loop.
It's interesting you bring up the insufficient bailout issue. I was guilty of this when I was on my unit after the course, back in August - I did a big dive on the Rosalie Moller (45mins on the wreck between 40 and 50m) with only 3L of air to bailout onto. I only realised the possible problems of this after the event, and was suitably sobered. It is definitely easy to forget about bailout, if everything goes well, and the unit performs, you use so little gas, you start to think that you can go in with next to nothing. For the planning of deeper stuff, bailout is the thing I spend most time thinking about at the moment, either for OC or SCR uses. Perhaps there is some benefit in the concept of removing all OC bailout from the unit (no Autoair, no O2 reg) as it would force you to take something additional dedicated solely for bailout use - then the onboard could be even smaller, which I guess is kind of where the Evo has been targeted.... |