Garrett - if the guy had any skills he would not be diving stroke gear.


Garrett Weinberg 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*>
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