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>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:18:55 >To: Rdediver@ao*.co* >From: Randy Sullivan <sulteck@so*.ca*> >Subject: Re: Second Stage Comparisons >Cc: teckdiver@te*.ne* > >At 10:04 PM 12/9/96 -0500, you wrote: >>>don't use Scubapro or Dacor in cold water.......I haven't tried the >>Zeagle.....< >> >>OK wise guy, the question was directed to second stage regulators, in cold >>water isn't it normally the first stage that has the freezing problem which >>causes the Intermediate pressure to increase and blow by the seat of the >>second stage?? If you just want to pick on someone, get your facts straight, >>address the question and then make an ass of yourself. Maybe even offer >>something constructive such as which regulator you would recommend. >> >>The Scubapro G250 second stage regulator works fine in cold water by the way. >> >Actually I find causes most free flows, is an ice up in the secondary. I have checked the dacor regs, but unfortunately did not have the opportunity to check the scubapro. In the last three years of running a charter boat in whitefish bay the score is. >Dacor lost count (never seen used it tec diving) >scubapro 4 >Sherwood 3 >Aga 1 >posidin 0 >us diver conself 0 ( personal reg that I use commercialy in extreme weather conditions) > >My conself was a 1980 model and I've had a 2" thick layer of ice on the first stage and it delivered air like nothing was wrong. That was on a day that my computer read 31 deg. F. water temp., fighting a 5 knot in the St. Mary's river, with surface temp at -30 deg. C. That Jan. 1 dive day 3 divers showed up. 2 conselfs, 1 dacor. the dacor diver got 3 breaths and frooze. > >Like it or not the scubapro has failed on an important deep dive(500'+) so it does stick in my mind. I don't think I need to say any more about dacor. > Randy Sullivan http://divers.nebulus.net/temp/scuba/scuba.html
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