A friend who owns a charter dive boat described losing a Scuba cylinder, and almost losing a diver, when the tank slipped from their BC after jumping off the swim step. Picture a new diver with their second stage yanked out of their mouth and a tank dangling from the inflator hose. Other friends who are instructors related similar horror stories. I was still skeptical until eavesdropping on a conversation in a dive shop between two divers looking at BCs. The condensed version was neither felt comfortable disassembling the buckle.
I started looking around the Net for instructions and found several good videos and a few illustrations. The problem with videos is they move too fast for some people, have marginal resolution, and are not very portable like in a garage, on a beach, or aboard a boat. The illustrations showed final assembly and are fine for some people but difficult for others to decipher. That is when we started a project to develop instructions that would be understandable by people with a broad variety of interpretive and mechanical abilities.
The result is a set of printable instructions with photographs, illustrations, and text for each step of assembly. The source document is available for anyone to customize including individuals, instructors, and dive shops. Adobe Acrobat files formatted for US Letter and Metric A4 paper are also available. The files are placed in the public domain allowing all or part to be used without fee or credit. Scubaboard has generously offered to host these files and links can be found at:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/bu.../391300-cam-buckle-assembly-instructions.html
I started looking around the Net for instructions and found several good videos and a few illustrations. The problem with videos is they move too fast for some people, have marginal resolution, and are not very portable like in a garage, on a beach, or aboard a boat. The illustrations showed final assembly and are fine for some people but difficult for others to decipher. That is when we started a project to develop instructions that would be understandable by people with a broad variety of interpretive and mechanical abilities.
The result is a set of printable instructions with photographs, illustrations, and text for each step of assembly. The source document is available for anyone to customize including individuals, instructors, and dive shops. Adobe Acrobat files formatted for US Letter and Metric A4 paper are also available. The files are placed in the public domain allowing all or part to be used without fee or credit. Scubaboard has generously offered to host these files and links can be found at:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/bu.../391300-cam-buckle-assembly-instructions.html