Service Tech Liability

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sure save that 30 dollars and dont have a guy with years of experience rebuild your life support equipment and should it fail due to negligence and you die your family will have no way to collect the money due them from the service guy or mfg that have millions in insurance for that reason. should you dive for the next 20 years you will only have 20 rebuilds under your belt and i would not want someone that in experienced working on my life support equipment. is it safe? does it make sense? will it work in the worse case senerio? but look on the bright side we in the fire service are lucker than most lol PS would you rebuild your scba

The post by udtfire got me to wondering. Has anyone ever heard of a lawsuit where a service tech or shop was held liable for an accident caused by a regulator failure?

 

[superstar]

I have not heard of one, but I am not looking for one. Usually one a diver dies his gear checks out OK.

 

[Jax]

The post by udtfire got me to wondering. Has anyone ever heard of a lawsuit where a service tech or shop was held liable for an accident caused by a regulator failure?

Seriously?!?!?! Get your stuff serviced by a pro so you can sue?

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

Seriously?!?!?! Get your stuff serviced by a pro so you can sue?

Hi Jax,

awap services his own gear, and helps many other DIY'ers on this board who service theirs by freely sharing his experience.

I seriously doubt that is what he meant

Best wishes.

 

[Jimmer]

I think she was more referring to UDT's post, which set me off in the other thread.

 

[ScubaSteve]

Hi Jax,

awap services his own gear, and helps many other DIY'ers on this board who service theirs by freely sharing his experience.

I seriously doubt that is what he meant

Best wishes.

I did not take it to say he was looking to sue either but he does pose an interesting question. The first scuba fatality that I was witness too made me question the same thing (and some recents terrible regulator services started it up again) but I did not take the search very far.

I am curious to see what this thread provides.

 

[Teamcasa]

No one is safe (unless they are broke) from a lawsuit here in the good ole' USA.
That said, I'm sure someone has been sued for incorrectly serving a regulator but suspect it is an extremely rare occurrence.

 

[Jax]

Hi Jax,

awap services his own gear, and helps many other DIY'ers on this board who service theirs by freely sharing his experience.

I seriously doubt that is what he meant

Best wishes.

Agreed! Many thanks, Awap! but he quoted udtfire . . . .

 

[Wookie]

I've seen a lot of poorly serviced gear. I have to fix at least one person's regulators on any given week trip. I became a dive shop (insurance only, no actual gear sales) just so I'd have liability insurance so I could fix gear. I stock hundreds of dollars worth of parts, pay thousands to participate in Seminars, fight with manufacturers so I can attend clinics (I'm not qualified to attend clinics because I don't sell regulators, so I have to get shops to sponsor me), have a few hundred to a thousand dollars worth of tools so I can fix regulators properly, just so divers can continue to dive on their trip. It's part of the customer service part of owning a liveaboard. With all that, I've never heard of any gear technician getting sued over a botched repair. Maybe more folks should. I see some really disastrous service here.

 

[Jax]

Wookie, are these things you discover in the course of a dive, or mostly because a diver grabs his / her newly serviced regs from the shop on the way to the plane / boat?

I wouldn't put my gear in the open water without testing it first, but am finding I am in the minority.