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Hi Wendell, Could you please tell me a little more about the << spontaneous combustion >> of the contents of a nitrox tank. Take care and dive safe, Scott Some weeks it's just not worth the effort to gnaw through the restraints and scramble up out of the pit. In a message dated 5/31/02 6:35:31 PM, wgrogan@dc*.ne* writes: << >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 >> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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