[Mal Bridgeman]

Feeling a little paternal on our recent trip to the Red Sea, on a rib ride out to the dive site, I noticed one of my buddies' inflator mechanisms was was beginning to part ways with the corrugated hose.

Much to the astonishment of the others on the RIB, I wipped out a cable tie from my wetnotes, zipped the inflator back on tightly, cut the end of the tie off with my trauma shears and saved the dive.

It was only a 30m poodle over a 1000m sea bed so who says you can take too much equipment

Mal

P.S. A more permanent and secure repair was made using 2 cable ties on the boat after the dive.

It was a Halcyon wing and seems the problem was related to the clamp which just isn't tight enough