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>My local shop said that DOT regs. require the sticker because if I were
>in a car accident with my tanks in the car that emerg. crews would know
>what they were dealing with in my scuba tanks.


Since the risk to emergency workers is the high pressure in the cylinders and
not a few extra percentage in O2, this is ridiculous.  The danger of a cracked
tank exploding with 21% O2 vs. 30% is the shrapnel, not spontaneous combustion!
 No fireman is going to take a dive tank and open it up near a fire- "Hey Leroy,
maybe this is a new type of fire extinguisher!  Nope, guess not 'cause it says
Nitrox on the side- maybe we can sniff it and get high!":)

>I live in FL, and would rather not have any stickers (trapping salt water
>etc.) and having Trimix in a Nitrox labeled tank etc.

That is one of my big gripes- if I switch from nitrox to trimix, do I have to
put a "regulation" trimix sticker on it?

Wendell
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