Would you dive with these tanks?

[Snoweman]

I saw these tanks at a dock and they looked really rough.
They belonged to another dive shop.
The location is outside the US.
I didn't look too close, but I don't think I would use these tanks or the shop that supplies them.
Am I overreacting or is this just a cosmetic issue from the salt water?

That's in Cozumel???

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If they dont blow up during, or right after filling they are safe to dive, I just would not pay to rent them

I would probably dive them so long as I could verify that they were holding pressure without any leaks and I had a buddy with enough air. They would generally only be likely to fail when being filled.

As a few others have said, I would want to be in a different area when they are getting filled though (like about 1/2 mile away).

Y'all have already forgotten about the death in Roatan from the exploding tank.

 

[BRT]

Y'all have already forgotten about the death in Roatan from the exploding tank.

6351 aluminum tank. Has little to do with steel tanks.

 

[Jiminy]

The really rusty ones are the emergency oxygen tanks!

 

[CT-Rich]

what's the purpose of the hose clamps around the neck of the tank?

The clamps might be to prevent the complete explosive failure of the quarter inch of steel. Or it might have been to hold the line used sling the tank.

 

[Snoweman]

6351 aluminum tank. Has little to do with steel tanks.

Steel tanks won't burst in a bad way?

 

[BRT]

There is possibly one example of a steel tank in hydro and vis failing, and nobody seems too sure about that one.

 

[ajduplessis]

Quick cave fill and they are ready to go.

 

[Storker]

I'd dive em... But suggest I'm a few blocks away before the owner fills them.

In the somewhat immortal words of science blogger Derek Lowe:
“Oh, no you don’t,” is the common reaction [...] to that proposal, “. . .not unless I’m at least a mile away, two miles if I’m downwind.”

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/things-i-wont-work-with
Rather hilarious for the right type of geek.

 

[dhaines429]

I don't think I'd hang around while they are being filled but if they are holding pressure then why not dive them. I have never heard of a steel tank exploding and all the failures of aluminum a I have heard of have been during fills.

 

[Storker]

if they are holding pressure then why not dive them.

If they look like that on the outside, how do they look on the inside?