Had a similar problem 2 years ago on the Annie Miller.

Back in the days of Zeagle useage, I was decending the anchor rope and felt a
bit heavy. Rather than try and get neutral before I continued my decent I
decided to get to the bottom and then sort out my bouyancy. Blowing up my BCD
on the bottom seemed to take an awfully long time so when I reached up to see
if the pull dump was stuck the whole thing came off in my hand. The pull dump
had separated from the threaded ring fitting.

I took out the detachable weights from the BCD and tied them to the anchor,
collected my buddy and made an ascent. Wasn't too heavy so the ascent was
reasonably easy.

Took then dump back to the shop and threw it at the rep the next time he came
in.

> James Dibbs
Sydney, Australia
> * (02) 8232-6257
> * 0411-213-599
> * jdibbs@ma*.co*.au*


-----Original Message-----
From: Skip MacElhannon [mailto:skipmac@cs*.co*]
Sent: Tuesday, 8 February 2000 6:49 AM
To: Christian Gerzner
Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: Re: wing failure


Actually, wings can suffer catastrophic failure, I saw it happen.  Many years
ago I had a dive buddy using bungeed wings.  The power inflator completely fell
apart (the inflator button blew out the end of the fitting) and lost all air
within seconds.  Due to the bungees it would not hold any air with the inflator
leak.

A good reason to not use bungeed wings.




 >I'm beginning to seriously worry about you. Or are you simply trying to 
stir up trouble?
Or do you actually, really, truly believe that your wings can suffer a 
CATASTROPHIC (you should know that word well since its Greek in origin) 
failure? All of a sudden?
How? A Great White maybe? In which case you have more than failed wings 
to worry about.
So you develop a leak in your wings u/w where, last time I looked, there 
is no up or down, certainly not in the open ocean where you apparently 
dive. So position yourself so that the leak is in the "down" position 
and therefore can't leak gas.
Easy.
Christian

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