The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

Name of Product: Diving Air Hose for Dry Suits

Units: About 65,000

Manufacturer: SI Tech AB, of Brastad, Sweden

Hazard: The hose contains an insert that can dislodge during diving and restrict air flow to the diver, posing a drowning hazard.

Incidents/Injuries: SI Tech has received six reports of hose inserts dislodging, including one that was involved in the death of a diver in Los Angeles, Calif.

Description: This recall involves a dry suit inflation hose that connects a diver’s dry suit to the air supply and allows for the pumping of air into the suit to set up a positive pressure arrangement to help keep it watertight. The hose contains an air flow restricting insert that may be either black, blue or green in color. The batch code is stamped on the threaded metal end of the hose. They were sold with dry suits and also sold separately. Contact SI Tech for a list of batch codes included in this recall or visit the firm’s Web site, www.sitech.se

Sold at: Diving equipment retailers and distributors nationwide from July 2006 through February 2009 for about $45.

Manufactured in: Sweden

Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using diving equipment that contains the recalled low pressure inflation hoses and contact SI Tech for the location of an authorized dealer for a free repair which involves removal of the hose insert, or to receive instructions on how to repair the hose.

Underwater divers — who allegedly “take a whizz” in the parking lot — are not welcome at the fashionable seaside community of Lions Bay. Village council has passed a bylaw banning non-resident scuba divers at Kelvin Grove Beach Park, subject to $10,000 fines.

Coun. Peach Akerhielm says council needed to address concerns about divers’ “rude” behaviour.

“Too many of the divers strip down to total nudity at their cars and then urinate around the parking lot, within view of residences,” said Akerhielm, who was not available Sunday, on the village’s community website.

“Residents have many anecdotes and photographs. Two council members have personally experienced rude and provocative behaviour,” she said.

Divers said residents in the upscale community of 1,400 are being unreasonable.

“Petty little minds are at work,” said Glynn Miller, secretary of the Pescadero Dive Club in Vancouver.

“It seems a fascist type of move. It’s definitely curbing human freedom. I can’t understand why the residents are so upset,” he said.

Miller said locals have never liked sharing the beach with outsiders. The park sports wolf eels, anemones and sharks, who cruise along an enormous underwater wall.

“It’s tough to put your hand down without touching sponges, coral or something. The Cousteau Society says the bio-mass is amazing, more so than tropical waters,” said Miller.

He said complaints are overblown. “Being nude is virtually impossible. Over 90 per cent wear dry suits. They have underwear on.

“I can understand people taking a whizz because you’ve got to pee. No facilities are supplied. Divers aren’t the only ones doing it. So do people walking dogs.”

One online opponent called “Karine in B.C.” urged a group protest. “This is all kinds of disgusting. I say we organize a mass pee-off at the beach. Set a time and date for everyone to go.”

Akerhielm said the ban is legal because council is allowed to control parking and other activities down to the area above the high-water mark.

Miller said it may take a court challenge to overturn the bylaw.

“How can you stop people from diving at a public beach? The public has access to the high-water line. It’s the law,” he said.

Here’s something you might consider adding to your “TO DO” list for the summer. The good folks at Gilboa Quarry in Ohio are organizing an attempt to set a new record for the most divers submerged at one time.

It’s being billed as your chance to be part of diving history, and sounds like it could be fun above and below the water!

Gilboa is one of the most unique and popular dive destinations in Ohio and you can find out more about it at  http://www.divegilboa.com It’s well-known by the sport and tech crowd and attracts divers from across state and much further afield. The quarry itself has a deep (technical deep) and shallow area, plenty to see and veruy comfortable surface facilities to feed, warm and entertain divers during surface intervals. And the staff are helpful and knowledgable.

The EVENT is set to take place on Saturday, July 18 with prizes and awards to be given out on Sunday the 19th.

There will be entertainment — as if diving with a thousand buddies is not entertainment enough — and lots of great prizes.

Admission Cost of $50.00 US for the 18th includes:
·    Certificate
·    T-Shirt
·    Dinner Saturday Evening
·    Entertainment
·    Free Parking

Prizes include:
·    Underwater Scooters
·    Gilboa Quarry Lifetime Season Pass which includes Parking and Camping
·    Dry Suits
·    Wet Suits
·    Computers
·    Regulators
·    Masks
·    Fins
·    Gear Bags
·    Dive Lights and much more…

To register for this event please fill out the Registration form to be found at:
http://www.divegilboa.com/images/pdfs/guinness_registration.pdf .

You must fill out and print this form. This is not an electronic submission. Please mail it along with your payment per the instructions on the bottom of the form. If you are a dive shop and need more copies of this form you can download the PDF and distribute.

Due to an immense amount of preparation for this special event please register ASAP. Your cooperation and timeliness is greatly appreciated.

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