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a few meager facts available at http://www.primenews.com/sdhnj.html rumor has it a Titanium first stage on an O2 bottle. NOT a wise combination. Titanium, like magnesium, is highly flammable under the right (wrong?)circumstances. Even aluminum is relatively flammable( remember the DAN oxygen reg. recall?), any light metal is. IMHO, triple-plated marine brass ONLY first stages if FO2>.40 actually, nothing wrong with triple-plated marine brass first stages for everything. regards, peterV saintpetersburgFL ----- Original Message ----- From: <JimH720113@ao*.co*> To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 8:46 AM Subject: o2 cook-off > gents, > i recently heard ( 06.05) that a o2 accident occured in Calif. > It was on the news (so i am told), that a fireman was diving "nitrox" and b/4 > he entered the water, his 1st stage regulator "caught fire" and burned him on > his back( 3rd degree) and burned most of the rear portion of hs wet suit. > Seems the reg he had was (as I am told) an ATOMIC TI. model. > also, it seems that a shop or 2 (in the area) has QUIT pumping nitrox. > this, (to the best of my knowledge) happened in lower ca, around s/d-la > area. > Is there any truth to this? > > jim > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.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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