Edited: First stage not flooded

[Lizard Leg]

I really wish I could point to something and say it was human error.

 

[dlofting]

Not sure if this has any relevance or not, but my Hog primary was breathing a little wet on a couple of dives.....nothing serious, but enough to notice. That evening I took the primary apart and removed and reinstalled the exhaust valve. No further problems after that.

 

[Lizard Leg]

Mine breathes wet on occasion if I am inverted at a weird angle trying to get a particular shot - that's never bothered me. This was much different; much more water than air.

 

[Caveeagle]

I hope Lizzard can take this more as 'accident' investigation than a personal attack. Whether the Yoke screw falling off is related to the initial breathing issue is not the point. What seems to still bother me is that WHEN the yoke screw came off, no gas came blowing out! Since the yoke screw is now on the bottom, we can assume that it came off somewhere before you got back aboard. Aside from some crazy impossible tank valve blockage, we should also assume your tank valve was shut off at some point. And... There was a point where somebody touched the yoke screw and tank valve (possibly inadvertently) and got them knobs turning in the wrong directions.

Perhaps we will never know. But if we had a video tape to watch.. I would bet $5 that some variation on this is what happened.

 

[Caveeagle]

There was a lengthy debate here recently on the relative merits of Yoke vs DIN regs. I am pretty committed to DIN regs and tanks. It never occurred to me that anyone might get confused in a high stress situation and turn one the wrong way. hmmm...

 

[BoltSnap]

Nothing like this every happened to me in my 40+ years of very active diving at all. BUT, I always used top brand regulators: SP, Atomic and AL

 

[gfaith]

Lizard Leg if you can't trust those HOG secondaries. I bet you can find some willing buyers here.
I for one would be interested. I only have (4) of them and a few more can't hurt.

 

[Reku]

I love hog regs. They are as good as the top of the line of any other brand

 

[redacted]

Nothing like this every happened to me in my 40+ years of very active diving at all. BUT, I always used top brand regulators: SP, Atomic and AL

I have seen SP 2nds suffer from this same problem. While i am sure there are design considerations, i suspect it is effected by entry conditions and techniques. A strong purge will often correct the problem.

But it is a good reason to test your alternate after a difficult entry, even with those overpriced regs.

 

[Neilwood]

Glad everything worked out. I do very rigorous dives with my hog regs and its better that this may be attributed to human error and not some mechanical deflect.

I've jumped in without air on, overweight, tanks not strapped on all the way, put the reg in upside down etc etc... You name it it's happened to me.

Everyone screws up - it's the nature of diving.

We are only human and we all will make mistakes. Every dive you come back from alive is a good one IMHO.