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List, I think we all presurize our stages and deco bottles. I guess Manos forgot. It did not cost him his life thank goodness. On the question of stages and deco bottles. I put 90 - 100cm hoses and a right angle at the reg for comfort and streamlining. Is DIR non right angle, and if so because of the potential failure point of the extra "O" ring? Jeff of Darwin. It's warm in the water!! At 14:06 17/01/00 -0600, you wrote: >Another good reason to turn the tank on to check the pressure and regulator >before entering the water, then turn it back off leaving the hoses full. >Then, this would have been discovered on the boat instead of during >decompression. > > Don > >-----Original Message----- >From: armantrout@at*.ne* [mailto:armantrout@at*.ne*] >Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 8:23 AM >To: Manos Manoli >Cc: Tech Diver >Subject: Re: Mistakes > > >uh, why not pull a reg off your back gas and put it on >the deco bottle? > >Not thinking it all the way through is what kills. >> I listen to people exchanging different ideas and how to do it right >> or wrong but i dot hear often someone admitting an error or a mistake. >> Don't we all learn from our mistakes if we share them don't other people >> learn from them as well ? So here is what i did wrong this weekend : >> We have plan a dive at 45 meters and at the end deco at 6m with 100% >> O2. >> Everything was carefully planed and within a few minutes we ware in the >> water. The 30 minute passed quickly and soon i was on 6m ready to switch >> on my stage tank. As i turn the knob the air was coming out fast from >> the point were the din plug meets the valve. My Deco tank was failing >> and thank god i always have a redundancy plan on my wrist to decompress >> with bottom gas ( i dive nitrox ). >> >> What happened ? the little viton O ring located at the tip of my >> Scupapro 1St stage felt off before attaching it on the tank. >> I simply did not turn on and >> then off my stage tank before jumping into the water. >> >> This is what kills people, ignoring Details i found out the hard way. >> >> Manos. >> -- >> 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'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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