ppatin
Contributor
About halfway through a recent trip I started hearing a weird hissing noise from my first stage whenever I took a breath through my regulator. I tried breathing through both my primary second stage and the octo and both produced the same noise from the first stage. My ability to breath through the reg didn't seem to be affected. Later on on the surface the divemaster listened to my reg as well and his theory was that it was the result of moisture in the first stage. His recommendation was to get the reg serviced once I got home. Since I have no idea what his actual equipment maintenance skills are I'm wondering if his theory sounds legit, and if so what do I do about it?
Whenever my regs were in the water they were obviously pressurized. When I got back to the boat I'd always dry the dust cap and immediately put it in place after I took my reg off of the tank so there's no way that more than a tiny bit of water could have gotten into my regulator unless someone secretly hated me and was sabotaging my equipment. I just got the darned things serviced prior to this trip so I'm not thrilled about the thought of shelling out more money on maintenance, but if there's salt water eating away at the insides of my first stage I guess I'd better deal with it sooner rather than later.
Whenever my regs were in the water they were obviously pressurized. When I got back to the boat I'd always dry the dust cap and immediately put it in place after I took my reg off of the tank so there's no way that more than a tiny bit of water could have gotten into my regulator unless someone secretly hated me and was sabotaging my equipment. I just got the darned things serviced prior to this trip so I'm not thrilled about the thought of shelling out more money on maintenance, but if there's salt water eating away at the insides of my first stage I guess I'd better deal with it sooner rather than later.