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From: <john.r.strohm@Bi*.Co*>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:21:15 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: labeling reply to Bill Mee
To: sallot@mi*.co*
Cc: cavers@cavers.com, jeffbentley@mi*.co*, kirvine@sa*.ne*,
rose@cs*.sc*.ed*, TOM.MOUNT@wo*.at*.ne*, wwm@sa*.ne*

>As you pointed out the dive shop screwed up by filling an "air bottle"
>with non-air, but if the instructor had been doing his job he'd realize
>the human element (the dive shop) could make mistakes and would have
>analyzed the gases to prevent that.

And I notice we haven't heard very much about what factors led up to the
shop making the screwup in the first place, or what procedural changes
IANTD and/or the shop will be making to keep this from happening again.

We HAVEN'T heard how the bottle was marked when it went into the shop.  We
HAVEN'T heard whether it was marked appropriately for "hot mix" or not.

Tom, for the love of Christ, this was a fatality looking for a place to
happen.  It is going to happen again, and there may not be an instructor
around to make the save next time.

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