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Over 4000 logged dives and well over 4000 hours.

No life threateneing equipment failures. Plenty of leaky o-rings (SPG and reg swivel mostly) and second stages that were annoying rather that life threatening. Also a few stuck drysuit or bc inflators that required regular dumping and/or disconnecting to complete dives. Also had a sticking O2 add valve on a rebreather that required a hose to be disconnected to continue the dive.

I replace hoses when they start to get soft or look worn around the end fittings and like to think that that reduces the risk of catastrophic LP hose failures. I also service my own regs so I can identify problems before they become significant.

Most memorable failures - none life threatening - were:
1. an almost new HP hose that looked to be in great condition bursting on the boat just after I cracked the cylinder valve about 4 years ago - maybe a faulty hose - luckily there was a spare guage/hose I could use so didn't miss a dive.
2. SPG sticking and showing air when cylinder was about empty - this has happened to me twice - once with buddy with octo and once when solo diving - both no deco dives and failure near surface so not really a problem. This happend even though I have always checked pressure guage needle movement regularly to make sure they are showing zero and not sticking.
3. a school of tiny fish swm around and into the regulator exhaust tee and jammed the mushroom valve open causing a leak - reg breatheed a bit wet until I could blow and purge the reg and clear the poor little fish.

Not gas related but have had computer failures on dives - all battery failures despite the battery indicator showing OK before dives.

These days I normally dive with at least 2 computers and have redundent gas on deeper/deco type dives.
 
3. a school of tiny fish swm around and into the regulator exhaust tee and jammed the mushroom valve open causing a leak - reg breatheed a bit wet until I could blow and purge the reg and clear the poor little fish.

I hate it when that happens. :) Never happened to me but I was getting a leaky 2nd stage one time and investigation revealed a very wet cockroach lodged in the exhaust spokes. M
 
3000+ (can't say for sure) over 51 years, not a single equipment related failure. Had a couple of "stupid personal related" failures but still alive and looking toward to my next dive adventure!
 
Over 4000 logged dives and well over 4000 hours.

No life threateneing equipment failures. Plenty of leaky o-rings (SPG and reg swivel mostly) and second stages that were annoying rather that life threatening. Also a few stuck drysuit or bc inflators that required regular dumping and/or disconnecting to complete dives. Also had a sticking O2 add valve on a rebreather that required a hose to be disconnected to continue the dive.

I replace hoses when they start to get soft or look worn around the end fittings and like to think that that reduces the risk of catastrophic LP hose failures. I also service my own regs so I can identify problems before they become significant.

Most memorable failures - none life threatening - were:
1. an almost new HP hose that looked to be in great condition bursting on the boat just after I cracked the cylinder valve about 4 years ago - maybe a faulty hose - luckily there was a spare guage/hose I could use so didn't miss a dive.
2. SPG sticking and showing air when cylinder was about empty - this has happened to me twice - once with buddy with octo and once when solo diving - both no deco dives and failure near surface so not really a problem. This happend even though I have always checked pressure guage needle movement regularly to make sure they are showing zero and not sticking.
3. a school of tiny fish swm around and into the regulator exhaust tee and jammed the mushroom valve open causing a leak - reg breatheed a bit wet until I could blow and purge the reg and clear the poor little fish.

Not gas related but have had computer failures on dives - all battery failures despite the battery indicator showing OK before dives.

These days I normally dive with at least 2 computers and have redundent gas on deeper/deco type dives.

#3 whoa!! That's got to be exceedingly rare!
 
I hate it when that happens. :) Never happened to me but I was getting a leaky 2nd stage one time and investigation revealed a very wet cockroach lodged in the exhaust spokes. M

My cockroach in gear story is a bit different, in that I was back home (where we do not have cockroaches). My gear was in the tub soaking and a few hours afterwards I noticed the dead roach floating around. Ewwwww
 

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