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art, same thing happened to one of my students who forgot to prime up his deco tank. we switched deco tanks under water and properly installed the reg. tasted salty the first few breaths and worked fine. joel >X-From_: owner-techdiver@aquanaut.com Thu Mar 25 06:57:53 1999 >Errors-To: owner-techdiver@aquanaut.com >From: "Paltz, Art" <Art.Paltz@R2*.CO*> >To: Brian Nadwidny <nadwidny@ho*.co*>, techdiver@aquanaut.com >Subject: RE: Switching regs underwater >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:33:05 -0500 > >Brian, > >Although I have not switched a reg. from one tank to another I did have >a reg. loosen up from a stage bottle. My mistake as I didn't check it >before getting in the water (last time I did that). Although the yoke >did not "fall off the tank" it was loose enough to rattle around when I >turned the gas on. The first stage flooded (as I found out during the >rebuild) but it did flow and I used it for more than 1 hour of deco. It >was my O2 reg. so I guess that puts to rest the subject of O2 cleaning >unless sea water is suitable for O2 cleaning.... And I thought Simple >Green was cheap!! :-) > >Although I don't know for sure but I don't think the depth had anything >to do with it. Maybe I'm wrong.... > >Art. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Nadwidny [mailto:nadwidny@ho*.co*] > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 3:39 AM > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Switching regs underwater > > Today I was discussing some of the various philosophies >for equipment > configuration at my local diveshop. One of the things >that I mentioned was > that I had seen the idea of switching regs from tank to >tank underwater in > case of failure. Well that brought about much laughter >and derisive > comments that regs can NOT be switched underwater. They >said, among other > things, that the sintered filter would be fouled and >wouldn't allow enough > gas to pass to the first stage for it to function >correctly. > > From what I've been reading over that last few months, >UW switching of regs > from tank to tank is part of the DIR philosophy so I >just assumed that it > was not a problem. So what I want to know is, has anyone >switched a reg > from tank to tank underwater? What happened? > > I have an old reg that I'm willing to sacrifice in my >quest for knowledge > but I thought I would ask here first. > > Thanks in advance for any information > > Brian > Canada > -- > 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'. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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