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Further to this thread, I thought I'd share an incident that our branch
suffered several years ago.

On a dive boat, a diver was filling his ABLJ (shows the date!) emergency
bottle, which had just been tested.  While filling it, the neck of the
bottle sheared from the valve, and the bottle was propelled at high velocity
across the boat.  It just missed one guy's head, and struck another in the
'gluteus maximus', causing bruising but fortunately no severe injury.

As I recall, this caused much amusement at the BSAC DOC that year, but we
treat it as a serious risk, and now all emergency bottles are filled so that
the cylinder points away from danger (ie. into the wild blue yonder).

Keith
hadlandk@lg*.lo*.co*

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