| So what did I learn :-
1) Get some drysuit training.
2) Never try more than one piece of new kit at a time (stab & drysuit)
3) Never go deeper than a few metres, when trying out a drysuit for the first time.
4) Build your experience slowly
I had made the same mistake in the realm of long long ago, when I'd decided to get my first drysuit.
Just followed a quick breifing from my colleagues and went in. HAd alot of problems and was more focused on the problems of the drysuit then on my charges.
Nothing as such happened, but the potential for things to have gone wrong is, in retrospect frieghtening
Good lesson learned, but it can also be applied to other diving eqiuipment a new mask, a new reg, new fins even. They are all small things but could all lead to problems. So a 30M dive would not be thee right place to try them.
What I sometimes also see from people on holiday, who bring their personal equipment, is just serviced regulators mulfuntioning.
So maybe a good idea would be a quick jump in a pool to test the reg before going on holiday.
Tonio Anastasi
BSAC AI505
POWSI612103.  |