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Nancy I am glad that you are happy with your SP regs and I do hope they work in the warm water as well as they perform in cold. <g> The experience with SP reg that I pull on is owning & running a charter operation in W. Fish Bay for 3 years. I have seen many SP regs fail in the summer time when the reg hits the thermaclien. This winter, here locally, no one has been able to do ANY diving using a SP reg. You must have the best SP regs that they ever shipped because I don't perceive them as dependable regs based on what I have seen. BTW I have never even tried a SP reg. Guess what, based on the failure rate that I have seen, I doubt I ever will. SP regs, do however, rate much higher on my list of regs that I would use in a pinch than say dacor or Sherwood. This IS after all just my $0.02 Randy Sullivan Sault Ste. Marie, Ont sulteck@ic*.ne* -----Original Message----- From: Nanci LeVake <nlevake@pi*.co*> To: Randy Sullivan <sulteck@ic*.ne*>; techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 9:44 AM Subject: Re: Cold water performance of Scuba Pro Regs > >Well, I ice dive with my two Scuba Pro regs every weekend, and have _never_ >had a problem with them. They aren't environmentally sealed or tuned any >differently than how I like them for Florida springs. Besides that, I've >also dived them in quarries, in ~40-45F water, down to ~130 or so, and >never had a problem there, either! I _am_ a little bit worried about how >they're going to work in 82F water in Cozumel, they've never been warm >before.... <g> > >Nanci > > > > >At 06:19 PM 2/18/98 -0500, Randy Sullivan wrote: >>The problem with SP regs is that they are freeflowing out of the box, >>period. If this is how SP ship regs where the they are going to be used in >>cold water, they SHOULDN'T leave the warehouse in the first place without >>all the twiking done to the reg prier to shipping. Up here you can't buy a >>new car off the lot without a block heater. You shouldn't be able to buy a >>reg that isn't cold water ready out of the box. >> >>I have seen an Odin's perform at 500'+ @ 38*F water temp with no problem. >>I own one. I have used my OLD conshelf in the winter @ -15*C surface temp. >>with water temp. @ 31*f (yes that is what my computer registered), >>breathed the reg at the surface and used the same reg for an 8 hour shift >>fixing a tug, no problem. I own one. >> >>The story of making a sows ear into silk purse is a good comparison to make >>when trying to use a SP regs. in cold water. I'M NOT saying they aren't >>good regs. What I am saying is that they are not the best choice of reg for >>cold water. >> >>Randy Sullivan >>Sault Ste. Marie, Ont >>sulteck@ic*.ne* >> >>-- >>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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