I buy the best gear and maintain it fanatically. While proper training and good buddies are crucial, I will never understand why so many people buy second rate dive gear. The extra money you spend on good gear is in reality, cheap peace of mind.
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It's just that she has mentioned the what-if of a reg failure and she usually don't go past 20 or so feet.
I think you have heard good stuff so far, but perhaps this specific point might be addressed.
I once saw a dive master have an O-ring extrude on his first stage at about 60 feet. I guess that qualifies as an example of her fear of a catastrophic failure at 60 feet. He took his BCD off amidst this explosion of air, shut off the air, removed the reg, fixed the O-ring, took one breath from my alternate, put it all back together again, and turned on his air. When he checked his air pressure, he still had enough to contemplate finishing the dive (it was right at the start), but he elected instead to go up and get a new tank.
Now, what he did took a lot of poise and skill, but my point is that if he had time for all that and still had enough air to consider completing the dive, I suspect your friend would have had time to surface calmly and safely instead.
Perhaps telling her this might help.
So, is he now diving a DIN first stage?![]()
After talking to the tainted one last night, she assures me that it's nothing to do with her training or even equipment. She just says it's very difficult for her to equalize below about 20' for any period of time. I think she can equalize, but stops back up pretty often even at the same depth (I had the same problem at 30' last weekend and it hurt and wouldn't go away no matter how many times I equalized, but I was still getting over a bad cold). But she still jokes about a failed 1st stage!!![]()
After talking to the tainted one last night, she assures me that it's nothing to do with her training or even equipment. She just says it's very difficult for her to equalize below about 20' for any period of time. I think she can equalize, but stops back up pretty often even at the same depth (I had the same problem at 30' last weekend and it hurt and wouldn't go away no matter how many times I equalized, but I was still getting over a bad cold). But she still jokes about a failed 1st stage!!![]()
After talking to the tainted one last night, she assures me that it's nothing to do with her training or even equipment. She just says it's very difficult for her to equalize below about 20' for any period of time. I think she can equalize, but stops back up pretty often even at the same depth (I had the same problem at 30' last weekend and it hurt and wouldn't go away no matter how many times I equalized, but I was still getting over a bad cold). But she still jokes about a failed 1st stage!!![]()
I buy the best gear and maintain it fanatically. While proper training and good buddies are crucial, I will never understand why so many people buy second rate dive gear. The extra money you spend on good gear is in reality, cheap peace of mind.