Equipment Failure - your data please!

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gr8jab

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Hi all! Please share your numbers, even if you've never had an incident.

How many air-supply related life endangering equipment failures have you had?
How many total dives have you made?
How many hours (if you know) diving?

Thanks
 
More than 8000 hours underwater. 3000 of that non-commercial. I can't remember more than one life threatening equipment failure which was a manufacturing defect in a revo.
 
I've had an AI computer that stopped registering the correct tank pressure. This was discovered during the buddy check, before jumping in, so we were able to test with another tank and eventually swapped out the whole reg with a spare. Afterward, we tested at the shop twice, immediately after getting back and two weeks later. Immediately afterward produced the same reading, 10 bar, on a 200 bar tank. Two weeks later, the reading was correct, but the numbers slowly went to the correct pressure.

The dive computer was new with a history of 20 dives, two pool test dives and 18 ocean dives, before the failure.

Occurred just before dive 209.

234 dives so far.
 
260 dives zero failures of my equipment. I’ve seen a buddy have a free flow once.
 
Life threatening... zero

TNTC bubble leaks
1 BCD elbow connection leak after back roll entry
1 significant free flow
1 fin strap disconnect

698 dives for 677 hours underwater
 
I had an spg essentially detonate when turning on a tank. Wasn't a problem since it was at the surface before hoping in the pool during training, but could have been a problem had it let go at depth. That's the only problem I have had in ~100 dives.
 
Closing in on 300 dives. On my last trip to Bonaire my Hollis 500SE started leaking a tiny amount of air. Since I had not brought my tool kit and extra 2nd stage I dove with it till the leak was great enough to shorten my dive. Not at all life threatening. Especially since I always carry a pony.

MY LDS told me that the 500SE is very tempermental and needs to be serviced at least yearly, and is prone to problems, and is a bitch to work on. Don't know if it's true. But that's the only equipment problem I've experienced - other than getting tangled in the dive flag line a couple times when diving cold low vis water here in central NY.
 
510 dives, 250 hours

No serious failures. Minor free flows on the surface several times. Only once I couldn't stop the slow freeflow from my secondary, so I swapped regs. I've got a 33 year old pressure gauge that's starting to read incorrectly. I've used rental gear with minor slow leaks, but lately the rental gear has improved likely due to better care.
 
The plural of anecdote isn't data. What exactly are you looking to accomplish with your "data" request?

To answer your questions:
None.
A lot.
A lot.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/perdix-ai/

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