[diveinfo] [trey@myacc.net: [gavinscooters] Timing is Everything- new Halcyon inflator hose]

[Jean-Sebastien Morisset]

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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:21:55 -0500
From: "George Irvine" <trey@myacc.net>
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To: "Gavinscooters@Yahoogroups. Com" <gavinscooters@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [gavinscooters] Timing is Everything- new Halcyon inflator hose


  A couple of weeks ago my inflator hose blew when I set my gear up at the
dock prior to a dive in the Bahamas. We replaced it and moved on. When I got
home, I had received two new Halcyon inflator hoses with a plastic slide
that makes it really easy to remove the inflator. Casey McKinlay had sent
them to me to try out. I used one to rerig my OW gear.

  Today, I had to do a weird dive. I got Bryan from Brownies Palm Beach, and
we took out a 64' Hatteras motor yacht that we ( my company) was having
trouble making the depth sounders work on. I wanted to see what was
happening under the hull that would stop the transducers from working. We
placed two Riffe floats 40 feet apart and told the captain to run the boat
in a loop through the floats starting at 15 knots and increasing to 25 knots
while we watched the action of any turbulence on the hull, which Bryan
videoed. We had to tell the captain to run over the bubbles, obviously one
of those things that a boat captain is loathe to do. We told him we would
surface only on the floats.

  What is the biggest risk of this dive? Answer: a runaway inflator. Well,
guess what, after three passes, my inflator ran away. I was able to
disconnect it in a split second. Now how is that for good luck? I would have
been able to disconnect a normal inflator, but this one came off with a
swipe of the hand.

  At the end of the day, I saw where the transducers must be located to make
them work, but how about that for timing?



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