{"id":6768,"date":"2020-05-06T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2024-02-15T19:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T19:51:28","slug":"valve-shutdown-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=6768","title":{"rendered":"Valve shutdown drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The valve shutdown drill should be in your skill set if you dive with two regulator connected to one breathing source (manifolded twinset or single tank with a double valve). The problem you want to solve is the leakage of gas from one of your regulators. There are plenty of different ways to do it, but here I will only write about one of them for a <u>manifolded twinset with an isolator valve<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Necessary ability:<\/strong><br \/>\nYou are able to reach the valves (isolator, right cylinder, left cylinder).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drill procedure:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Close the isolator valve<br \/>\n2. Switch to the left regulator<br \/>\n3. Close the right cylinder valve<br \/>\n4. Purge right regulator carefully<br \/>\n5. Open right cylinder valve<br \/>\n6. Switch to right regulator<br \/>\n7. Close left cylinder valve<br \/>\n8. Purge left regulator carefully<br \/>\n9. Open the left cylinder valve<br \/>\n10. Open the isolator valve<\/p>\n<p><strong>Real procedure:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Close the isolator valve<br \/>\n2. Switch to the left regulator<br \/>\n3. Close the right cylinder valve<br \/>\n4. Purge right regulator carefully<br \/>\n&#8211;> No bubbles afterwards? Then open isolator valve and return to the surface.<br \/>\n5. Open right cylinder valve<br \/>\n6. Switch to right regulator<br \/>\n7. Close left cylinder valve<br \/>\n8. Purge left regulator carefully<br \/>\n&#8211;> No bubbles afterwards? Then open isolator valve and return to the surface.<br \/>\n9. Open the left cylinder valve<br \/>\n&#8211;> Non of your regulators have a leak, but maby a valve. Return to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Always try to trigger your buddy as soon as possible with your unused hand either via torch or stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The valve shutdown drill should be in your skill set if you dive with two regulator connected to one breathing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16671,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/16671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}