Diving with my son many years ago his BC failed. He did a giant stride off a boat, I followed him. After we dropped down a few feet I noticed he was sinking in a cloud of bubbles. Where the inflator attached to the BC had separated comletely. It was an old Parkway(?), he wasn't a happy camper, and wouldn't dive again till he had a new BC.
Ed

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From: John Nitrox <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 2003/01/31 Fri PM 01:02:13 GMT-08:00
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Top 10 Spellbounders

At 06:24 AM 1/31/2003 +0800, Bjorn wrote:


>PADI requires of a DM candidate that s/he tread water for 15 minutes, the
>last 2 to be spent with hands out of the water. This simulates a rescue, at
>least to some extent.

         "...simulates a rescue,..." I wish I'd known that when the other
two guys in my class glared at me after the instructor said it was part of
an affirmative action program for the obese.

         BTW, I had a bc failure with a Dacor Caribbean.  The gasket
sealing the dump valve became slightly unglued and folded under thus making
the bc incapable of holding gas under pressure.  without taking the valve
apart.  Fortunately, with this bc a temporary fix could be done
underwater.  If anyone wants to know the slightly humorous story which
delineates what not to do and which makes me look like an idjit, just ask.


DPTNST,


John
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