scrane
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After you've opened and closed a few tanks you'll know that's the least of your worries.
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Yes, but I agree.
obversely.......never mind.Obviously I obviate with your obversion. Or am I obversing with your obviation? I’d like to use obvolute but obviously I don’t know what it means. Something obverse about a leaf.
I've been diving since 1969 and this has never happened to me. However, if I'm in a cave and hear/feel my tank bump the ceiling, I reach back on both sides (double tanks) and make sure that they are open.
In case of a free flow on one of my regs, I want to be able to isolate that reg off. No, you can't do this with only one tank, but you could feather the tank open/close with the offending reg in your mouth. You can't even do that if it's locked open.
I did have tank valve get turned off by my drysuit hose once. Was diving wet and wrapped the DS hose around the valve. It seems everybody time I looked up it pushed the hose which turned the valve off a little each time. Eventually the valve closed causing an OOA situation. Switched to pony and had buddy turn gas back on. Lesson learned, spare hose goes down tank in cam band.
{Smiles} This is 2018.........Alexa - Unlock my tank !!Or did you want to use a locker combination type or maybe a Titanium Master Lock?
Okay, so it's happened to someone at least once...which pretty much nullifies any argument that "this is a non-issue."
Thank you for sharing.