kafkaland
Contributor
I had a not so pleasant experience with my Halcyon Contour sidemount rig last week: On initial decent into the Pit cenote, the shoulder dump valve got stuck open. Here is how it happened: the plastic tube that guides the pull cord from the shoulder valve to the front had cracked, and when I pulled the cord to dump air, the cord got stuck in it, keeping the valve open. Fortunately I was close enough to being balanced that I could just swim up and fix the issue at the surface, but losing buoyancy with a hard bottom at 120ft or so was not pleasant. I'll bring the BCD to the dive shop where I bought it and see what they say, but I think it requires some engineering solution to make sure this can't happen, like a little metal sleeve at the end of the tube, or something like that.