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Well, Thank Goodness someone finally got hurt! I mean if this dope hadn't flamed himself, your arguments would not have a leg to stand on! I would really like to know the details of this, because as you describe it, there should be dive shop tank-filler flunkies bursting into flames all up and down the east coast. Keep in mind that I understand that most rules are designed to protect the 1% of idiots from themselves and to torture 99% who, to varying degrees, know what they are doing. This is further proof that the 1% of idiots are beyond help, so why have the rules, anyway? It is also interesting that this happened in the super-paranoid Fla Keys, where it is forbidden by law to use the words "solo" and "diving" in the same sentence. Where you can't fart in a dive shop unless you show the proper certification. Where you can buy a pony bottle, but you can't buy a pony bracket. Where a LP120 won't fit in any diveboat tank racks. Where the Fin Ladder is considered "technical" dive gear. Where the local instructors have a snorkel on their mask plus a spare snorkel strapped to their leg. Where the snorkelers have to wear a BC. Where double tanks means a 2 tank dive trip. Need I go on? Jim On 9/7/97 10:24 AM CHKBOONE@ao*.co* wrote: > >Jim, > > You asked me to come up with some examples of incidences involving >accidents with scuba gear that resulted in explosions, fires, or injuries as >a result of improper Oxygen cleaning. I got one for you ! > > Last week at Underseas Divers on Big Pine Key a nitrox tank was being >filled using a genesis adaptor that was not clean for O2 service. The fill >station attendant suffered 2nd degree burns on both legs from top to bottom >when the contaminants in the adaptor lit off. Luckily the reaction did not >extend into the tank or up the fill lines but the adaptor and tank valve were >both melted to some extent. > > I don't have any more details than this but if you want some more you can >e-mail me and I will tell you who to call. > >Chuck >-- >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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