tddfleming
Contributor
Out at quarry yesterday, standing on dock watching different classes while on SI. Quarry was pretty busy with more kids than I have seen out there being cert. to date. Many of the kids looked to be 10-11 yr old. All of a sudden there was a loud popping noise coming from one of the kids that was in the water. Air started shooting from what looked like his 1st or tank valve at the time. Kid started sinking, no reg in his mouth, as they just finished the giant stride and he and his inst was floating and talking on the surface. Of course this created some movement of people trying to figure out what was wrong. Another inst came over and started to oral inflate BC, did not work. As they thought an O ring had burst. They towed the kid to shore. This group was across from where I was sitting and in our group we had an inst, DM and an equip. tech. I told the equip tech what I just witnessed at the water and what I heard them say they thought it was, so we watched to see what they were changing. However, it was not an O ring bursting but his shoulder inflator hose connction blew. Once it blew the kid started to sink like a rock. I have to give it to the kid after this he got set back up and went back in to finish his OW cert. Kind of amazing just how fast it happened and things could have gone real bad had no body reacted. 50# of gear and straight to the bottom he would have went.