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Head Watersports Recalls Apeks Second Stage Scuba Regulators Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Drowning Hazard

Source
CPSC Recall Data API
Source link
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Head-Watersports-Recalls-Apeks-Second-Stage-Scuba-Regulators-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Drowning-Hazard
Published
2026-08-06 00:00:00
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-08 09:24:57
Category
Supplier Risk
Geography
United States
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

This recall involves Apeks model XL4, XL4+ and XL4 Ocea second stage scuba regulators sold from April 2025 through June 2026. They were sold in various colors or color combinations of black, white, gray, mint or yellow, with serial numbers between 250402212 and 260402893. The serial number is laser-etched on the side of the regulator and also appears on the shipping carton.

Procurement Relevance Gate

PASS — score 22.8/100 — evaluated 2026-08-08 09:24:57
Passed on: logistics_freight_transport, geographic_exposure (score 22.8/100, threshold 20.0).
  • logistics_freight_transport (weight 12) — matched on "shipping"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Initial Significance
1 · Low (11.0/100)
Initial Confidence
2 · Low (39.0/100)
Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
Insufficient
Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth

Initial Significance Low (11.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

  • No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
  • No eligible (non-geographic, non-fictional) entities were linked to this Signal.
  • no confidence-specificity evidence (actor entity, date, quantified value, or concrete verb)
  • no matched Event type
  • no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
  • no actor content-derived geography
  • single source only

Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-08 09:24:57.