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Do you also bend them over with a flashlight between your teeth to make sure they're not hiding any oxygen up there? Jumpin Jesus, what about those out-of-control maniacs with the cascade systems and home-haskels? How come they haven't all blown to smithereens? Hell, by your accounts Farb's, GMIII's and several dozen others on this list houses should be a huge smoking craters in the ground by now. How bout them, huh? Jim On 8/6/97 12:47 AM Bill Bott wrote: >Okay, > >So I sticker my tanks for notrox. Then I have to buy another set or two of >doubles and singles for air (because filling "NITROX TANKS" with air would >also violate standards). Then another couple sets of doubles for Tri-Mix. > >Get a FU&%$NG Life you back woods weenies! You must not want any real >divers in your so called dive shop. Do you realy think I (or anyone else) >are going to buy SIX sets of doubles pluse singles plus stage bottles just >to make a bunch of know nothing do nothing red neck jirks happy! Frankly I >feel you and any other dive shop with this aditude can pound sand. > >If it has a curent visual and hydro put air in it! If it has an O2 clean >sticker on it fill it ONLY if you have a compatable grade of air (if not I >don't want it my tanks any way). > >When CGA, IANTD, ANDI, PADI, OSHA, and the host of other agancies come >together and adopt ONE set for standards fine! Use it. Untill then NO >"Community Standard" is present. Only agancy standard exist. But >draining a set of tanks and removing the stickers that are on them to put >air in them and closing an isolator in the prosses is hardly complying with >any standards I am aware of! > >When a customer brings tanks in for a fill, I will fill them if: > >1) They'r trained for the gas requested > >2) The tanks are current for Visual and Hydro > >3) Oxygen is to be added they must comply with ONE OR MORE agencies >standards (any one or more). > >4) The tanks are filled with a gas other than air the customer MUST >anilize the tanks and sign a waver stating the FO2 and MOD of the gas >before leaving with the gas. > >5) The tanks MUST be labled with the contents and MOD if they contain >other than air. > >You were not asked to provide NITROX or any other gas is this not corect? >The tanks were curent for VIS and hydro is this not corect? So what is >your big problem puting some EAN 21 into tanks labled "BREATHING GAS OTHER >THAN AIR" > >I can assure you I will not set foot into your facility and I WILL RECOMEND >to others that they do not use your facility eather. I vote with my check >book and you just lost the election. > > >At 09:03 AM 8/5/97 -0400, you 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." > >Bill (aquadart) Bott >-- >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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