About 16,000 pieces of diving equipment from Lamartek Inc., dba Dive Rite of, Lake City, Fla., are being recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The over pressure valve springs in the diving equipment could rust and fail allowing the buoy
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