MHD

Flooded my unit on Saturday resulting in a cocktail. Suspected I had a leak even though the unit gave off no bubbles and ended up with a cocktail coming through the unit after 30 minutes. Was at fairly high level of alertness when in happened, so as soon as the resistance went high I blocked the DSV with my tongue to protect my air way. Even doing that I got in in my gums and on my tongue and in my mouth and it was ugly. For people who have got in in their air way it must be a truly terrifying experience. My first reaction was to spit out the mouth piece and even with the small hit I had I had to stop my self and close it and change over to my stand by reg while I deployed my off board bail out (I run a 2nd stage on a necklace off my onboard for a quick breath). I think my Rebreather was trying to tell me something as I was in the process of having my 2nd cell failure for the dive at that point so it was definitely time to breath off something else.

Spent the next 40 minutes swimming around with my mouth tingling and wondering what would of happened if I actually got a good mouth full.

Burnt the Sh*it out of me latter when I pulled the scrubber down and got it all over my hand. It's not nice stuff.

So as I said hats off to any body who has managed a big hit, it would truly be a scary event.

Matt