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Hi everybody. Last weekend I had a serious failure of both of my seconds stages Poseidon Odin: I was diving solo, lying line and negociating a severe squezee at the entrance of a sump, using side mounted tanks, when I was at 15 feet depth and just getting out of the squezze I was breathing from my left second stage and then it suddenly flooded and instead of air gave me watter, then I swiched to my right second but I only could breath one inhalation and it completly flooded again giving no air, So I held my breath and swam to the squezze and fortunately could pass it and reach the surface alive, only with the stress produced by the incident. As that sump was the second from base I had to dive again the first sump back to base, (the first sump was not long and shallow, but with zero viz) so I had to use again my second stages, I carefully washed them and tested ten times and they worked fine with no more failures, so I swam back to base through the first sump with no incidents. The only cause of that failure I think is that some sand have to be in the second stages, the squezee in the 2nd sump was full of sand and I was negociating it with my back on the sand floor and my face close up to the ceiling of the descendig passage , with my seconds tied to my neck and between my and the ceiling. May be some sand afected my seconds while I was kitting up, but I'm very carefull with that. Now, a buddy has told me to use some kind of nylon stockings to protect the seconds and avoid the sand in further dives, I think it's a good idea but, have you any other idea? Have any of you had problems like that? Thank's Josep Guarro jep@re*.es* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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