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What ever happened to valve shut-down skills?

Anthony DeBoer wrote:

> > > I met a guy with a exploded bondage wing yesterday. He had a freeze up on
> > > the inflator during a cold water dive. It resulted in a uncontrolled
> > > filling of the wing. He went ballistic and could not dump air due to the
> > > over pressure thing failed. Can you imagine the sound when a twin cell
> > > bondage wing explode:-)
> > >
> > > The guy did not hurt him self but is no longer looking for a new bondage
wing!
>
> The runaway inflator would have only been filling one of the two air
> cells, so it probably didn't sound too much different than a single wing
> would have.
>
> However, the people who advertise this stuff tell you that the other air
> cell gives you redundancy in case one fails, but there's a chance the
> second cell would be compromised by the first one blowing up in this type
> of incident, depending on whether it blew toward or away from its mate.
> There's also the chance that even intact, the second cell would extrude
> through a split in the outer jacket and cause some really interesting
> bouyancy issues.
>
> --
> Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*>



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