Water in SPG immediately after regs serviced

[broncobowsher]

If you have just noticed the moisture in the SPG, finish your dive trip with it and not worry too much. If on your average dive you use 2000 psi of gas, then notice your are surfacing with a 1000 psi the SPG is probably starting to go. Or if you start out the dive with 0 psi the SPG is probably dead.

When you get home visit your local dive shop and buy a new gauge. Ask the tech there to show how to install it. But here again are the instructions (though for a spool)

Video is valid. The oxygen safe grease is great for using with Nitrox, but regular silicone will be fine with air.
How much, just enough to make the O-rings glossy but little enough you don't see globs. You want the O-ring to slide, but not blowing globs of grease through the hole.
Tighten, notice he barely put any effort into it. little more than finger tight. Enough it won't come loose. It is not a high stress connection, the O-ring holds the pressure. A one finger pull on the end of the wrench will be enough.

 

[Elduderino]

Why fix it when you can wax hyperbolically on about it and gain maximum attention.

It is inconceivable that a dive shop/dive operation is unable to sort this out for the OP, and given how many dive shop/operators exist in Cabo makes this story even more unbelievable...what is more likely is there are parts of the story the OP is leaving out.

Perhaps the same "oh my god, the sky is falling" coupled with "I am not willing to personally do anything to help my situation other than complain" mentality, that the OP has displayed here, has pervaded communications with those able to help the OP in Cabo that they have turned unwilling to help.

Just a guess.

-Z

No one has a spare SPG to purchase. I've called around a bunch of shops here and they've all said parts are extremely hard to come by. I asked a few places to swap the SPG and they said they didn't know how. Now that could mean they didn't want to or a person wasn't available to do it I'm not sure. The shop I'm diving with initially said to just dive with it which I did for 4 dives. However it's split about 50/50 here on if that's a safe/good idea. Sorry that I don't have all the techincial knowlege to decipher who is offering the best/good advice. And yes I'm a little worried about diving deep with a gauge that's broken or one installed by someone who isn't confident. Let's remember you probably have a ton more experience and know if this is no big deal or not. Not sure why you're being such a ****. The shop has now swapped out the SPG. Apparently only 1 person was able to. Again idk if that's just their own policy or if all the other dive guides really didn't know how. I can only go off what they told me.