Are siltouts inevitable?

[RN]

Personally, I've only had one issue resulting in a shut down, but I was sidemount. However, ask Cindy Butler about the incident she posted about here on CDF. Apparently, the force of the leak from her 1st stage was enough to "roll" her down a decline while she was trying to shut down. In most cases, a silt out is not inevitable. In that case it appears it was inevitable. It also appears some people will only pick up on certain things so their own inadequacies can be explained away.

[Shocky]

There is a saying in my previous profession: There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. There are not too many old, bold pilots! If you put yourself in a bad situation and something bad happens, you have no one to blame but yourself. Murphy rules.

[bletso]

It depends on who you dive with .....

Seriously, I have had to perform a shut down in a low siltable are. All accomplished, turned and exited and no one could tell there had been a problem. Am I good, not really, but my instructor had me paranoid about contacting the fluff. It just stuck. Diving is after all a visual sport.

I have been in passages where you had to plow though a mud/silt bank. Now there was an unavoidable silt out. Just don't let go of the line as you couldn't see you light unless it was an inch in front of your mask.

Dale

[rjack]

Silt outs are inevitable. They shouldn't be in many places but the majority of places where real poo hits real fans will siltout.

[Johnsreef]

Was in devils ear when my burst disc on a crappy manifold came out. So much air left that ceiling perculation caused temperary 0 vis. But in valve shut downs I taught a technique that usually did not silt.