Funny, we're very careful when we're mixing, turning every valve on nice and slow... But on the boat, before we hit the water, we charge our O2 stages by just cranking the things on.
Humm. I might make an adjustment in that procedure.
Open the valve, pushing purge button?
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Humm. I might make an adjustment in that procedure.
A scuba board member a few years ago had one of the more serious reg fires I have heard about with failure of the first stage body and some minor injury.
Those types of events are admittedly extremely rare.
A more common scenario for a reg fire is a more or less non-event where the reg appears to just leak badly upon opening the valve. A fire is not noticed and is probably not even suspected and the evidence of a fire is only found when the reg is serviced and the charred o-rings are discovered.
mfalco
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Sounds like a bad habbit to get into if you ever plan on diving in very cold conditions like ice diving.
In extreeme cold, breathing the regulator out of the water or pressing the purge button can help cause a free flow.
In extreeme cold, breathing the regulator out of the water or pressing the purge button can help cause a free flow.
Give us a break please...........
.... must be 10's of thousands of 'wannabee' sport and technical divers out there today. If you are one of the few that follow this practice to the tee, that is wonderful.....but its just a practice and thats it. Proper handling of ALL breathing gases is a must....just as is opening any valve 'slowly' is the 'smartest' thing you can do to protect your gear and yourself, the purge depressed or not.
cool_hardware52
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Hank49
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Most tanks valves are not so smooth operating that opening it fast or slow increases or decreases the time it takes to pressurize your reg. Perhaps a split second is all the difference it will make.
Blacthorn
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this whole reg fire thing is just another reason why it is bad to smoke while diving, aside from where to actually put the cig in the 2nd stage, now you could start a fire....
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