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It seems to me the certifying agency standards are to WARN those who are not intended to use the contents and not to make the meaning of the contents known to who is using them. As a diver who will be venturing into this realm of diving (training) this summer I'm very interested in staying alive! Could everyone also consider the following! Some of us are "spectrumly challenged"(Color Blind)on the surface never mind 30 fathoms down. Thats not to say we can't see all the colors of the rainbow, We just have a real hard time in insufficient light. This leads to a certain insecurity. Second (minor): STICKERS are the last thing we want on our tanks from a cylinder corrosion perspective. They should be minimized! Due to standards a majority of us have to appease the Dive Shop gods and place these REQUIRED standard stickers on our cylinders. I understand the initial (knee jerk) logic behind the barriers being prescribed to prevent human error (poodle jackets)covers and overly descriptive signs (Stickers for lawyers). I work in an industry were procedures and redundancy are prolific. We as workers are always fighting back against management to keep things simple however the first human error (complacency) and the knee jerk reaction is to plaster the walls with (danger/notice/caution) signs and overly stated procedure steps. This leads to more errors not less and as they continue to study the results (trend) management often can't understand why. So they impose strick complience rules. RESULT: a droid who is so concerned with following the cumbersome rules and verbage he/she forgets what the hell they are doing! #1 placing an object barrier over your "scariest" mix introduces a human error = diver places it on the wrong mix (its going to happen)and then complacency says - oh this is my o2 so I will breath the other (the real o2). ya the diver didn't verify he had it on the tank with OXYGEN instead of NITROX (nitrox means nothing) on the sticker. If you analyze most accidents it is a series of small seemingly insignificant errors which lead up to the big bang! In the interview afterward you here words like Assume, conviniant, interupted, distracted and in the worst cases you can't understand why because the only witness isn't speaking! With out expereince it appears to me the application of maximum operating depth (MOD) for all and OXYGEN on the cyliders intended for switching requires the diver to actually VERIFY at the time of use the tank markings for the depth they are at. Everyone humm along "Stickers, Stickers, everywhere stickers, breath this don't breath that, can't you read the stickers" Was Fatality at Die polder III, also see Dead skunk --- Tom Mount <TOM.MOUNT@wo*.at*.ne*> wrote: > Ken > It is not just color coding however as any > photography can tell you and you > can prove by looking there are colors such as green, > yellow and pink that > are still visible at depth regardless of ROY G BIV. > They are less brilliant > but still seeable but the point is not the color it > is they state oxygen 0r > deco gas I or Nitrox is highly visible wording. so > they are readable to all > and identify the gas type and in deco gas and Oxygen > state mod on them, > Second the contents tape is readable to the diver, > third the MOD is readable > to all, fourth the mountpeice wrap is completely > noticeable as you cannot > breat around it. > > Please remove me from your CC list > > Respectfully yours, > Tom Mount > CEO IANTD World HQ > http://www.iantd.com > === Kevin E. Harris Life is like a grindstone, Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of! Author Unknown _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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