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Anthony, I agree with you about the way to deal with a frozen inflator. It could be hard though, the house is most probably, as you state, frozen together with the inflator and cant be removed. As I do most of my diving in cold water I use a special house witch is easier to disconnect even if its frozen. One thing to consider is that these things could happen pretty fast. Mostly due to poor use of the inflator, to long filling of the wing. If it happens and you go for the inflator and dont get the house of the inflator and then go for the valves you would already be doing a quit fast ascend. In this case its obvious that the overpressure relief valve did not operate as intended or not at all. The pure size of a bondage wing completely filled and the diver rocketing towards the surface could explain why the diver did not turn the valve off. It could be poor skills to indeed. Some wings are more prone and have more failure points than others. This wing shure had some.... Regards, Rich At 17:27 1998-01-09 +0000, Anthony DeBoer wrote: >Garrett Weinberg writes: >> What ever happened to valve shut-down skills? > >Probably the same thing that happens to all the other skills every diver >should have but often turns out not to have when the shit hits the fan >for real. > >Besides, you want to just pop the quick-disconnect on the inflator hose. >That's quicker, and doesn't kill everything else on that first stage. >Only if the whole works is frozen together or the hose end freeflows >would you go to your tank valve. > >-- >Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*> >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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