FishFinger
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caveseeker7:That picture s from the UAE incident.
Cause undetermined, so it's not necessarily a YBOD fault.
I've been on four boards from three countries and lurk on two more
as well as on the RB list and don't recall three other torch jobs.
Mind elaborating a bit?
Whein completing my Inspo TDI CCR training in Sharm, with TekStreme. Good bunch actually, we went through the O2 drill. They had clocked 4 incidents amongst the Dive Centres in Sharm, one of the guys I actually met on the training dives. He had just bought one second hand and it caught fire soon after. Funny thing was the first person to abandon ship was the captain of the boat.
When I related this story to the shop I bought the Unit from, they told me about some issue with the Apex valves on the older units, having some sort of material on the metal which over time disintegrated, adn reacted with the O2.
I then wrote and email to ApValves and got a letter saying that it was user error, I dont know about you but it seems unusualy to have so many of these incidents, in the same environment, all user error, some of which by experienced instructors!
You may be on lots of forums, but you must have missed the post on this on www.yorkshire-divers.co.uk about it!