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| Originally Posted by narked at 90 so what happend? |
I was having a little pootle at Dorothea and thought I heard a bit of gurgling from somewhere. Feeling quite smug that I was diving it sidemount rather than backmount I took it off to check it out. Unclipped it, pulled it up in front of me, it was a bit awkward to breathe it that way so I switched to OC (luckily). I hit the dil purge to see if I could see any bubbles... boom... RB drops like a rock, dangling by the handset clipped to my harness.
I could lie but... I forgot I'd removed the OPV from the lung and replaced it with a manual O2 add button as I had switched it back to a swagelok valve (so no manual bypass) so I could use my KISS valve on my other RB. To cut a long story short, lots of dil, no dump valve, kaboom. Lots of swearing, back to shore, dump it on the platform, it looking like a clubbed seal. Grumble, grumble, grumble. Especially when a load of divers dumped their fecking fins, masks, etc on top of it...
Still, they managed to knock it over, pissing caustic water all over their masks. I hope they wash their kit when they get home.
Fine and dandy, cheers for asking. I had luckily switched to OC when it happened.
I'd only gone to try out my new torch... worked a treat!!!
Which reminds me of something else to moan about... new thread on it's way...