Finneli Felwitch
Registered
I was lectured by the scuba police this weekend, given the typical lecture of you are doing a very dangerous thing; you will die on your dive. The reason for the lecture was that my scuba regulator did not meet their definition of a safe regulator.
I dive a Phoenix HPR Royal double-hose regulator. When I asked the scuba police why I was going to die and what was dangerous, the response I was given is that my scuba regulator is old. The scuba police gave no additional information to support their claim only that all double-hose regulators are old and unsafe.
I said that it has been serviced and that the 1st and 2nd stage are new this year 2014. The scuba police said that nobody makes or services double-hose regulators anymore and if I serviced it myself, then I am an idiot.
I would like to know, is there a law or a rule that says that only dive manufacturers/dive shops can service scuba gear? There really cannot be one that covers every dive manufacturer, since US. Divers/Aqualung does not require you to be a service technician to repair some of their models. Vintage Double Hose (A company in Central Florida) does not require you to be certified to repair the Phoenix HPR Royal, Zeagle, the manufacturer of my BC, not only allows me to modify my BC, but also sells the manual and repair kit in case I need to repair my power inflator or patch up a hole in my Bladder.
The scuba police chose to ignore that information, really I just pissed them off even more.
Who trained Cousteau and Gagnan? They invented the Scuba regulator. Am I not allowed to teach myself through studying and practice and eventually creating my own scuba system just like Cousteau and Gagnan did? If they spent the time teaching themselves, shouldnt I be able to do the same and not get attacked for it?
I dive a Phoenix HPR Royal double-hose regulator. When I asked the scuba police why I was going to die and what was dangerous, the response I was given is that my scuba regulator is old. The scuba police gave no additional information to support their claim only that all double-hose regulators are old and unsafe.
I said that it has been serviced and that the 1st and 2nd stage are new this year 2014. The scuba police said that nobody makes or services double-hose regulators anymore and if I serviced it myself, then I am an idiot.
I would like to know, is there a law or a rule that says that only dive manufacturers/dive shops can service scuba gear? There really cannot be one that covers every dive manufacturer, since US. Divers/Aqualung does not require you to be a service technician to repair some of their models. Vintage Double Hose (A company in Central Florida) does not require you to be certified to repair the Phoenix HPR Royal, Zeagle, the manufacturer of my BC, not only allows me to modify my BC, but also sells the manual and repair kit in case I need to repair my power inflator or patch up a hole in my Bladder.
The scuba police chose to ignore that information, really I just pissed them off even more.
Who trained Cousteau and Gagnan? They invented the Scuba regulator. Am I not allowed to teach myself through studying and practice and eventually creating my own scuba system just like Cousteau and Gagnan did? If they spent the time teaching themselves, shouldnt I be able to do the same and not get attacked for it?