joe8mofo
Contributor
So I never thought I would be posting a thread here but apparently it happened to me.
My friend picked up a setup of double LP95s from North Carolina which were recently (1 month ago) hydro'd and VIS'd which means they come with a fill of air. Well we got to the dive site, geared up and the first breath of air on land had a taste to it, I thought it was strange but maybe had something to do with my new 7 ft hose. So I did a quick shallow dive to see what was really going wrong. It tasted 10 times worse in the water, I switched to my secondary underneath my chin and the taste was still there, so I immediately called it as it was clearly NOT my new hose.
The VIS sticker says NADCO scuba; so the assumption is that they filled the set, and either the fill was contaminated or the VIS wasn't done so well and there is something in the tanks.
I will post an update when they are taken apart for O2 cleaning, it will be interesting to see what is in them.
My friend picked up a setup of double LP95s from North Carolina which were recently (1 month ago) hydro'd and VIS'd which means they come with a fill of air. Well we got to the dive site, geared up and the first breath of air on land had a taste to it, I thought it was strange but maybe had something to do with my new 7 ft hose. So I did a quick shallow dive to see what was really going wrong. It tasted 10 times worse in the water, I switched to my secondary underneath my chin and the taste was still there, so I immediately called it as it was clearly NOT my new hose.
The VIS sticker says NADCO scuba; so the assumption is that they filled the set, and either the fill was contaminated or the VIS wasn't done so well and there is something in the tanks.
I will post an update when they are taken apart for O2 cleaning, it will be interesting to see what is in them.