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Old 02-07-07, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by 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

The morel of the tail is: if your going to buy crappy Halcyon wings make sure you take cable ties and gaffer tape with you every dive to hold them together.

Thanks for the heads up M8

ATB

Mark Chase
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