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Wisefish, NO. The individual gases have colors, the mixes are individual colors together in bands. We only paint the depth on the bottle. Tags have the mix, and they are removed when the bottle goes into service, and has been logged in to the gas sheets. Doubles are transported with tags. If a bottle goes unused, it is retagged. Once used and the reg removed, it must be reanalyzed , retaged, or dumped. We use a colored ta[e marker to help the support divers sort the bottle prior to setting them in the water, but this is only for a qick galance reference. One of our recent Wakulla dives required 108 deco bottles, so we needed the color on the usrface. The depth is painted in three inch high letters longitudinally in the orientation of the bottle on both sides, so that wherever the bottle is carried both the diver and the buddy can see what is being breathed. Bottles are always off and the reg parked on the bottle unles it is being breathed. These are permanent markings. We do not put little stickers on or color the bottles. Anybody betting their life on a mix should paint the numbers on or take up golf, where using the 7 iron instead of the 5 iron will not kill you. Using differnet regs or marked regs is blatent stupidity, or depending on any convoluted system to identify gas, or any other touchie-feelie horseshit. If you can not see the bottle, don't dive. In cave, the bottles are never carried past their depth, in ocean, if you can not see, breath the back gas. If you get bent, so what - better than dead. The fact is, trimix actually works great for deco, I have done plenty of trimix sneak dives swith only 02 deco, and plenty of ocean trimix dives with only backgas deco. On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, IchthyoSapien <goettg@rp*.ed*> wrote: >is there an industry standard for color coding trimix, heliox, and argon >bottles in the same vein as nitrox (yellow w/ green neck and label, or >oxygen, green with label). other color bands? checks? paisleys? all >i've ever seen is the text label stating contents. > >also for george: what other labeling do you place on your cylinders? >contents, MOD, ....? > >thanks >-glenn >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. > >
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