Subject:RE>>Euro Nitrox Regs

Paul Harris Wrote - >

>The BS-AC are supposed to be 'the governing body of the sport in the UK' can
>they bring any pressure (pun unintended) to bear, especially as they are now
>starting Nitrox training?

As with all  things in diving - don't hold your breath - this is unfortunatly
not a UK only thing its EEC wide - the sports diving agencies can I suspect
bring little if no pressure to bear on the Govermental bodies - Chris Hellas
used to be on these boards and is a board member of IANTD UK - Chris do you
have aview to this ???

>The point of this standard appears to be to prevent Nitrox cylinders being
>filled from oily compressors (after all air is nitrox 21 isn't it)? Should
>we be looking at standardising on the air coming out of our compressors,
>after all this would at least give us some benefits eg 

New guidelines for breathing air are already on the way - they are reported
to be introducing VERY low moisture levels for example - this will increase
shop filter and Compressor costs - thus increasing your Air fill costs

>give greater benefit for less cost, even if the dive shops pass on the cost
>of the extra filtration in fill charges.

Many people pay over ten pounds sterling and have to travel many miles to get
Nitrox fills (has the situation improved for you yet Neal ??) - these changes
will just drive mixing back to homebrew and all problems that will incurr -
it won't stop people doing air tops on top of pure O2 at dive shops which may
not have non return valves fitted on the whips for instance

GD

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