Interesting "Problem"/Question

[bdurrett]

Hey gang,

I have been out of touch for over a year now and not in the water for longer but I have an "interesting" issue that I want to toss out there....

Our kit (Regs/wetsuits/BCD, the whole lot) was stored in our cellar of our apartment building in our dive bags in a closet. Anyone familiar with German housing knows that a cellar like that is really nothing more than a rather large cage with each "cellar" being partitioned off my some sort of barrier. In our case it was wooden slatted walls.

To make a short story longer, a neighbors cellar caught on fire in a different section but there was some fairly significant smoke damage to the area where our cellars were located. There was no visible smoke residue in the closet where our dive bags were stored but I had the regs shipped off to ScubaPro for a complete overhaul anyway (Insurance paid for it).

Now, the question is, despite having a clean "bill of health" from ScubaPro, would YOU trust the regs? I did get a list of repairs done and a little baggy with the parts that were replaced so I know the work was done but there is this little bit of "I don't want to breathe that black crap that was everywhere deep into MY lungs" still lingering in the back of my mind....

thanks for your comments!
Cheers,
Bret

 

[devondave]

I wouldn't worry, it can't be more than you get from standing near a bonfire or walking though any major city or if you're German, from lighting a kachelofen.

Dave.

 

[podge]

I wouldn’t know too much about scuba stuff as I freedive only but I would like to say-
WELCOME BACK BRET, Where have you been man?????

 

[Kars]

I had my regulator cleaned and dove to - 40m resulting in a strong headache. I turned out to be the -residue- of the cleaning agent used by my scuba shop.

I tent to agree with the bonfire/city argument. You could ask someone with a good nose to smell. And or dive shallow for the first tank. or sell your stuff and go freediving

 

[fcallagy]

welcome back brett. I would trust the servcie agent esp when they sent back all the old o rings etc. Do a few purges onthe regs. I would be more worried about the air in the cylinders.

 

[bdurrett]

welcome back brett. I would trust the service agent esp when they sent back all the old o rings etc. Do a few purges on the regs. I would be more worried about the air in the cylinders.

Yep, especially since I have to rent tanks wherever I go ....

 

[bdurrett]

I wouldn’t know too much about scuba stuff as I freedive only but I would like to say-
WELCOME BACK BRET, Where have you been man?????

Hi Podge,

Well, let's see ... moved house, changed job (theoretically got promoted but that is a cover-up for same pay, more work), got into a car wreck (rear-ended), and no holiday since October 2008.... :head

 

[podge]

Hi Podge,

Well, let's see ... moved house, changed job (theoretically got promoted but that is a cover-up for same pay, more work), got into a car wreck (rear-ended), and no holiday since October 2008.... :head

Get yourself a large and well stocked bar for the new house, beat your new boss with your old regs until he submits and gives you a pay rise, buy yourself a new car with the extra money from said pay rise and blow the rest on a 4 week holiday somewhere warm and wet.
Welcome back mate.

 

[MattB]

I think Podge has the best advice there. Podge you only forgot to say that he should buy new regs since his old ones are probably broken now if they weren't before.

 

[bdurrett]

Get yourself a large and well stocked bar for the new house, beat your new boss with your old regs until he submits and gives you a pay rise, buy yourself a new car with the extra money from said pay rise and blow the rest on a 4 week holiday somewhere warm and wet.
Welcome back mate.

Well, I sort of DID do one of these things... I got a new car.... Traded in the totalled 1994 Nissan Micra (had 8500€ worth of damage and a value of about 10% of that) and got a nice new Skoda Octavia Sedan... Think Audi A4 with a different body and about 1/2 the price. Skoda is the Czech brand owned by VW/Audi so the parts are all out of either a Golf or an A4... Not bad at the end of the day...

As far as the bar goes, my M-i-L is visiting for the week.. I think she'd probably frown on that :rofl