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This is actually a good example of why dual bladders aren't so great. Given you have a wing overinflating (or just inflating, both of which are usually due to poor maintenance), which valve do you shut down, or which inflator hose do you disconnect? On a single wing / drysuit system, the choice is obvious. Shut down the correct post (or maybe the argon). At 09:07 AM 1/9/98 -0800, you wrote: >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*> > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*> Northwest Labor Systems http://www.nwls.com Bellingham, WA Fight Spam! Join CAUCE (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) at http://www.cauce.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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