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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. > > This is all pretty interesting; i) do rebreather users have to O2 clean the entire loop? ii) NASA started all the O2 work, didn't they, after Apollo 1 &/ 13 - why did they come up with an fO2 40% as a critical point? iii) saying O2 fires don't happen at low pressures is fine; tell the guys starting their oxyacetaline rigs from grease patches. iv) as bill said, 'it ain't happened yet' is not *quite* good enough. When a very nice Thai started to fill his tuk-tuk from a petrol pump with the lit cigarette *in that hand* we were the other side of the building before you could say 'badoom'. He found it very funny. jason > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. > Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'.
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