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Well, if you guys think these rule suck like I do, we need to take our business anywhere but shops which mindlessly conform to IANTD ridiculous policies. I know that for every shop which hassles you when you are trying to give them your money, there are 5 shops who will take your money and do you right. So why get hassled? Personally I think this post is bullshit. I can see it now, Tom Mount lurking behind the compressor banks, ready to pounce on some hapless fool who dared to let common sense prevail. "The Olympus employee, after hours, surreptitiously fills his unlabeled tanks. With a sudden shout, the legendary Tom Mount leaps out from behind the compressor banks, wearing a transpak festooned with legal documents. "Ah HA!, he bellows, Caught you breaking Page 91, Section C:Labeling EANx Mixtures with less than 41% Oxygen, Paragraph 3. I though there was some hanky-panky going on down here in NC! With a flourish he yanks the appropriate contract off of one of the 2 dozen or so D rings and tears it to shreads in front of the weeping employees watery eyes. "So, thought you could get away with this, huh? What do think we're running here, some sort of oxygen freak show? Huh? Welllll, thats the last time you try to pull the wool over the old mountsters eyes, yessireeeebob!" Crushed, the dive shop closes it's doors and the owner commits suicide. Yes, I can see it now. Jim On 8/5/97 9:03 AM Olympus2@ao*.co* wrote: >All, > > A breif explaination of Olympus Dive Center EANx filling policies: > > > From the IANTD Standards and Procedures manual, Page 91, Section >C:Labeling EANx Mixtures with less than 41% Oxygen, Paragraph 3: > > "Scuba tanks without a green & yellow label without suitable contents >description-wording to identify Nitrox,EANx or an equivalent acronym must not >be filled by IANTD facilities. Any color-coding other than yellow & green >violates community standards, IANTD standards and International practices." > > Several other paragraphs detail the width, color-coding and wording >required on tank labels by IANTD EANx Facilities for EANx fills. > > Due to contractual agreements with IANTD, PADI and our professional >liability insurance providers we are required to only provide EANx fills in >tanks with the green/yellow tank wraps. Green/Yellow Nitrox tank wraps are >available in the shop for $3.50 each. While I personally feel that the >"Breathing Gas other than Air" decals should adequately warn potential users >that the tanks contents need to be analysized before use, those decals do not >meet our contractual agreements. (The opinion of the store manager and owners >may differ from mine). > > Next, Olympus did not contact Discovery Diving concerning this incident. > Had the parties involved simply have dropped their tanks off at Discovery >and asked for air fills, they would've have gotten what they wanted. > However, when dropping off the tanks they commented that we would not fill >their tanks which prompted Discovery's manager to call us to find out why. > > Olympus Dive Center will continue to honor its contractual agreements >with IANTD, PADI, ANDI, NAUI, etc. Anyone not wishing to conform to the >current EANx filling requirements we must follow should contact those >organizations and petition for a change in standards. > >Thank you, >Robert Decker. Director of Training >Olympus Dive Center >www.olympudiving.com >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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