Unreal experience that I wanted to share, I'll try to keep it simple.
At 8mins in @ 75ft I started breathing slightly wet on my main reg. I switched over to my octo, which was dry. I decided to slow my inhale just a bit to be safe until I felt more comfy with the octo. Meanwhile, I purged my main just for the sake of getting any small amount of water out. No big deal....I chose to keep my octo in and it was breathing dry. At this point, I'm thinking I have a 2nd stage failure and have to use my octo for the rest of the dive.
10 seconds or so later, I rotate my torso a little to look under a part of the reef, and got a big inhale of water. I still had my main reg in my hand for some reason, even thought it was clipped on a ring....I immediately moved into what turned out to be nearly vertical body position, put in my main reg from instinct to cough out the water. As I'm doing this, my main started to breath slightly wet again but not as bad as before so I kept it in until my coughing subsided a bit. Now I'm thinking I had some sort of 1st stage failure, I decided to end my dive, signaled buddy/DL and went up..boat overhead. Both regs breathing very slightly wet at this point.
The low-down dirty shame
Back on shore, turned the tank upside down and opened the valve. It was like my bathroom faucet..it literally wet the dock. To make it worse, when we removed the tank valve.. the dip tube was missing. Somehow this tank didn't get the visual by the magic men behind the doors......
Lesson?
If that were to happen again, my lesson learned was immediately signal out of air to buddy and share some gas. Thinking rationally, I probably would have slammed my mouth into his octo without even signalling to be perfectly honest. That thought has me rethinking my configuration and going with a necklace for both me and my buddy. Many necklace subscribers say, one reason to use a necklace is for ooa situations where someone simply is panicked and yanks your reg out of your mouth. I was panicked with lungs full of water.
Experience
I know I was confused about the situation down there...the wet/dry breathing, plus the inhalation of water added to the confusion. If anything, it was an experience. It is also something that I could handle again.
What doesn't kill you...I did the next dive, first one in the water.
At 8mins in @ 75ft I started breathing slightly wet on my main reg. I switched over to my octo, which was dry. I decided to slow my inhale just a bit to be safe until I felt more comfy with the octo. Meanwhile, I purged my main just for the sake of getting any small amount of water out. No big deal....I chose to keep my octo in and it was breathing dry. At this point, I'm thinking I have a 2nd stage failure and have to use my octo for the rest of the dive.
10 seconds or so later, I rotate my torso a little to look under a part of the reef, and got a big inhale of water. I still had my main reg in my hand for some reason, even thought it was clipped on a ring....I immediately moved into what turned out to be nearly vertical body position, put in my main reg from instinct to cough out the water. As I'm doing this, my main started to breath slightly wet again but not as bad as before so I kept it in until my coughing subsided a bit. Now I'm thinking I had some sort of 1st stage failure, I decided to end my dive, signaled buddy/DL and went up..boat overhead. Both regs breathing very slightly wet at this point.
The low-down dirty shame
Back on shore, turned the tank upside down and opened the valve. It was like my bathroom faucet..it literally wet the dock. To make it worse, when we removed the tank valve.. the dip tube was missing. Somehow this tank didn't get the visual by the magic men behind the doors......
Lesson?
If that were to happen again, my lesson learned was immediately signal out of air to buddy and share some gas. Thinking rationally, I probably would have slammed my mouth into his octo without even signalling to be perfectly honest. That thought has me rethinking my configuration and going with a necklace for both me and my buddy. Many necklace subscribers say, one reason to use a necklace is for ooa situations where someone simply is panicked and yanks your reg out of your mouth. I was panicked with lungs full of water.
Experience
I know I was confused about the situation down there...the wet/dry breathing, plus the inhalation of water added to the confusion. If anything, it was an experience. It is also something that I could handle again.
What doesn't kill you...I did the next dive, first one in the water.
