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Rant: Took me 9 hours to find a tiny crack in my helmet hose during a pre-dive check.
I was chasing a constant air leak that only showed up at 40 feet, and it turned out to be a hairline fracture hidden under the rubber sleeve that I must have missed 5 times even with soap tests; has anyone else spent a whole day on something that dumb?
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anna4911mo ago
and the worst part is you probably did a dozen bubble tests on the surface with no luck, right? that same sleeve tricked me once on a used reg where the rubber had gotten stiff and was hiding a split right at the neck. i ended up submerging the whole hose in a bucket and applying pressure by hand to flex it, watched tiny bubbles stream out like a lava lamp once i bent it just right. it's the kind of dumb that makes you feel like an idiot but also kind of genius when you finally catch it.
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the_anthony1mo ago
...and that bucket trick is exactly how I found a pinhole leak in my inflator hose last month. @anna491 I was so pissed at how obvious it looked underwater versus dry, felt like the hose was gaslighting me.
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