Valve or Regulator Failure

[ScoobieDooo]

Anyone have any statistical odds on a valve or regulator failure - and I don't just mean an annoying free flow, but something life threatening.

 

[Waterborne]

I have never had a failure of my reg or valve. I meticulously maintain my kit to prevent failures. I have never had a piece of faulty life support equipment either.

 

[Lead_carrier]

One of the worst I ever had first hand experience with was a reg that shut down on a friend of mine about a week after I had serviced it. He was in Cozuemel. just finished a 100 ft dive but had been shallow for a bit so thankfully he wasn't hurt or didn't take a hit. He was sorta hot at me and let me know it for messing up and not servicing his reg correctly. I had him go with me to the service area and watch me disassemble it. As soon as I removed the filter we both know what had happened.. Contaminated tanks had almost totally clogged his filter. A full tank would push the pressure through but after a while the lower pressures around 1100 psi it would just get choked off and the reg was getting overworked. Fortunately, he saw me disassemble the reg and saw how it looked so he knew I wasn't trying to bs him with an explanation that it wasn't my fault.

 

[ScoobieDooo]

Moral - never service a friends regulator!

 

[Lead_carrier]

Well, it wasn't just me servicing it as a buddy. I was working as an equipment tech at a dive shop when I serviced it.

 

[SeaQuest]

ScoobieDooo
I had a G250 Scubapro quit in 80 feet of water. The second time it was dove on. My buddy was right beside me and I grabed his second. It was not my reg it belonged to a friend and he was telling us how great scubapro was.

Explaintion we received was that the first stage was improperly assembled.

To this day I will not dive scubapro. Just me, call it superstition.

SeaQuest

 

[Spectre]

The o-ring near my second stage in my backup reg blew a minute or so after reaching the surface after my first cavern dive.

No big deal, but it would have been a hell of a scare 10 minutes earlier.

 

[sheck33]

I was diving a, just serviced, reg in about 60ft when it simply fell apart because the shop had forgotten a crucial spring, that was annoying. Other than that just a freeflow on the surface because the reg was mistuned, after being just overhauled by the way. A different shop that time. So, nothing major, just annoying

 

[dsgobie]

I watched a hp hose blow right off the 1st stage a month or so ago while out on the boat. He had just went in and was at about 65ft under the boat. I was still topside, and seen this white "glow" coming up at the boat, then it looked like a U-boat had been torpedoed. He came up about 20 secs after it all had happened. You should have seen the look on his face...

Kodak comes to mind.

 

[dsgobie]

Come to find out, he had knocked his rig over while gearing up. And the hose didn't go until he had got in the water.