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My secondary regulator free-flowed at 90 feet during a harbor inspection
Everyone says to just shut it off and switch to your octo, but that didn't stop the panic when my vision went white with bubbles. I had to manually close the tank valve for a second to kill the flow before I could even see my gauges. What's your actual go-to move when a reg fails deep?
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danieltaylor7d ago
Manually closing the tank valve is the real move. Had a first stage start free-flowing at 60 feet once, and that whiteout is no joke. I shut the valve, took a breath off my octo to calm down, then cracked the valve open slow to see if it was just a fluke. It wasn't, so I just shut it down and finished the dive on my buddy's air.
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zara_hunt7d ago
Yikes, that sounds like a great way to flood your second stage.
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