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I've been a big enough PITA to never get on a dive boat with a particular unsafe diver.
Reanalyzing a tank would take a few minutes. That's the incomprehensible part.
Making a team mate that you are about to go diving with re-check a tank that is admittedly mislabeled is not in any way being a PITA. In fact I can’t think of anything more important.I'm torn on this. On the one hand, the buddies asked.
On the other, if a buddy said, "Dude, those tank markings make me nervous. May I analyze your tank, just so I feel better?", then it would have been a 'catch point'.
There are many who immediately want to "blame the buddy" for someone else' ****-up. Where does one draw the line? How big of a PITA does one be??
I'm torn on this. On the one hand, the buddies asked.
On the other, if a buddy said, "Dude, those tank markings make me nervous. May I analyze your tank, just so I feel better?", then it would have been a 'catch point'.
There are many who immediately want to "blame the buddy" for someone else' ****-up. Where does one draw the line? How big of a PITA does one be??
I test every tank for CO, and now that I have seen divers mistakenly dive Nitrox they thought was air on a deeper dive - I test my tanks for O2.
I don't test my bud's tanks. I offer to let him use the analyzers, but up to him. But then my dives are all recreational while carrying a 19 cf pony I did analyze - so I'm covered. I just do not impose my standards on others, no matter how tempting.
I don't blame the buddies, but if one of his buddies had needed to breathe off that tank it wouldn't have just been the deceased who was ed. If I'm solo diving, you can fall into the water ahead of, next to, or after me with whatever potentially deadly flaws you like...but if I'm actually buddied with you and you're about to dive an O2 tank as part of our combined breathing gas, you're analyzing it for me.
I test every tank for CO, and now that I have seen divers mistakenly dive Nitrox they thought was air on a deeper dive - I test my tanks for O2.
I don't test my bud's tanks. I offer to let him use the analyzers, but up to him. But then my dives are all recreational while carrying a 19 cf pony I did analyze - so I'm covered. I just do not impose my standards on others, no matter how tempting.