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Bill

RE:
> I would like to know if anyone on this list has any FIRST HAND information
> about oxygen fires in scuba equipment.

A dive shop owner I know told me of an O2 fire on his boat.

Apparently someone had a home made adapter to connect pure O2 bottles
to scuba regulators. They connected it up, cracked the valve
(as opposed to turning it on slowly) and it all got rather hot so
they turned it off. O2 fire.

They think he had some brass shavings in the adapter. Probably
an extreme case.

I know this story is second hand so don't bother pointing it out.

By the way, I used to work in a gas station in uni. vacations and the guy who
owned it always filled gas tanks, as he did everything else,  with a lighted 
cigarette in his mouth. He is still alive and well.

Guy.

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