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OK, folks, what is more dangerous, doing a homebrew or taking deepair instruction from a TDI instroketer? I think the facts speak for themselves. You know, Ted some people also purchase guns and blow their heads off jumping over a fence. This is not about doing it cheaper, it is about not having to be forced to do deepair to get to trimix. Do you offer instruction on trimix with the deepair crap? Jim On 10/10/97 8:15 AM Ted Green wrote: > Kevin, > The liability comes in to play when people ( certainly not >you ) who do this type of gas blending are to cheap to buy the Oxygen >analyser and never analyse the mix before diving it. Sooner or later >they make a mistake, too much Oxygen, and then a next of kin is trying to >sue the store that air topped the tanks that killed the diver. Kevin >before you try and tell me that all these "garage mix wizards" have >Oxygen analysers, remember these are the same people who will not pay the >extra $2 per cylinder for medical grade Oxygen and use ballon grade >Helium instead of 99.97%. Face the facts. Most of these people are to >cheap to buy the mixes and figure they can do it cheaper themselfs. >These people have a copy of gas mixing tables, a bottle of Helium, a >bottle of Oxygen, and a $10 pressure gauge. To them, an Oxygen >analyser is a $150 to $300 waste of money. They will tell you," I >know how to read the table and the pressure gauge, and besides I >don't make mistakes." > If you believe that a dive store couldn't be sued by the next of >kin over a bad mix that the store air topped, then I have a ship >wreck that I would like to sell you! > > Ted -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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