Clean Your BCD (the RIGHT way!)
Channel: Diver Down
Date: 2024-01-11

Scuba gear maintenance is key to making it last long and work well throughout its (hopefully very long) useful life. How hard can it be to clean your BCD? Thankfully, the answer is: Not at all! Even so, most divers miss at least one of these steps. Can you guess which one?

No shade to most of the divers I work with. They're new! And gear cleaning is one of those things that's easy to forget or overlook in a class setting when there's 10,000,000 other things you're trying to remember, plus mentally and physically exhausted at the end of a long day.

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 * Travel/folding BCD hanger: https://amzn.to/3U3hFYK
 * BC washout hose: https://amzn.to/3w4Nng4
 * Gear Aid Revivex BCD cleaner: https://amzn.to/4aF2dsL
 * Trident BCD cleaner: https://amzn.to/3VZEkb1

Chapters:
00:00  Introduction
00:37  Rinse the outside
01:06  Rinse the inside
04:01  Storage
04:28  No hose? No problem!
05:06  Deep cleaning tips
05:56  Dump valves: To remove, or not to remove?
06:30  Conclusion