Blowing Tank Air on a Regulator

[keyshunter]

I use the tail of a dry T-shirt after the dive. Actually, I much prefer the air blasters to the idiots who spray sunscreen over everyone and everything,

 

[Steelyeyes]

Now that I know how annoying high pressure air blasts are to some people, I’ll have to make sure to do it more.
Shoulda kept your mouth shut.

I just think it's a quaint very outdated habit, like having a landline or an outhouse.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I just think it's a quaint very outdated habit, like having a landline or an outhouse.

Some people who live off the grid still use outhouses. Composting toilets are actually a very environmentally responsible way to deal with human waste. Flushing a cup of urine down a toilet with a few gallons of fresh water is actually becoming outdated.

 

[Ghost95]

If i were going to blow air on my regulator I would use an air gun attachment connected to the LP inflator hose and blow the water of before I disconnected the regulator from the tank.

People who blow off the reg after disconnecting from the tank, using the tank air, are most likely blowing water into the regulator.

 

[johndiver999]

I blow my go pro housing off too, before I open to switch batteries and I piss in the yard if I can

 

[happy-diver]

Got no dust don't use dustcaps nothing to blow

 

[BryanX]

the noise can be reduced if you hold the cap really tight against the tank. only if you hold the cap and leave a gap between, then it is really loud.

 

[mcohen1021]

One staff member on a LOB I was on wore hearing protection to avoid that noise... Too many people open it too far and it's seriously deafening...

 

[NYCrecdiver]

I don't like the noise either. It's disruptive. A tank pushing out air has everyone on the boat stop what they're doing, thinking or talking about. Leave your dust caps on the boat. Why anybody would take them diving is beyond me. Unnecessary stuff dangling around your kit.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Honestly, I don’t know why people blow air from their tanks. In between dives when I need a fill I undo the reg and hang it so that the air inlet is pointing down. No sea water ever gets in. The dust cap never goes back on until it’s cleaned of salt water/salt crystals. When I pack up for the day I leave the reg attached to my tank and haul everything home pressurized or up to the wash station at the dock pressurized. I don’t disasseble it until the reg is clean and dried.
So I don’t get it, but to each their own. Air blasts don’t bother me because I’m half deaf anyway from working in body shops for years and other shop environments, plus freediving, plus scuba diving, so blast away.