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>On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, EE Atikkan wrote: >> problem is the a cartel being set up under the guise of safety. This in itself > >When a diver dies while diving, which IMO happens too often, it usually >is because he didn't follow the safety rules, ....not because of some >cartel trying to setup safety guidelines. Mr. Attikan has a very important point. One that people who do not work on their own gear may not at first pick up on. When a diver dies while diving, which I will agree happens too often, it usually is because he didnt follow the safety rules. In the water. I have never heard of someone dying because they rebuilt their gear with the wrong lube, or assembled their regulator incorrectly. There is a reason for this. More often than not, people who repair and maintian there equipment have a pretty good idea what they are doing. (I know, this is far from universally true). But the point is Why should a person who rebuilds his/her own gear be forced to take their equipment to a shop, where it is worked on by someone who usually has very vague training in a lot of regulators, as opposed to this person working on it at home, who has a very detailed knowledge of this one regulator, just because he has to have the parts? How about tank visual inspection? Not a horribly difficult process. How many times have you watched a so called "tech in the dive shops miss critical parts of a visual inspection (number of serviceable threads, visual examination under the neck) forcing you to have to redo it at home. Ever take a deco (oxygen use) bottle in for hydro and watch the funny looks when you explain why you have to have this special grease on the threads of the valve? This "cartel" is a very real entity. Mostly created by insurance purposes to protect the shops and the equipment manufacturers, there should be a way created for competent owner/divers to work on their own gear. Whether that means Scubapro allows non-dealers to attend it's repair courses at a horribly exorbitant price, and then sign a waiver that says "I wont hold SP responsible for anything at all for the rest of my life" that's fine. I would take that step to be allowed to work on my own equipment. A competent industry wide instruction course (with required tools) for tank maintenance? perhaps, though this would be a little more difficult liability wise. But consider this. In more than one shop, I've seen tanks go out with a new hydro sticker, and the valve never came off the tank. You're filling these tanks, shop guys.... Jason Richards NSS/CDS 41539 rchrds@ho*.co*.ed*
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