just a curiousity question......since carbon monoxide is colorless,odorless,,,,just to test a tank,if there was carbon monoxide in the tank,,do you think a blast out of it would be enough concentration to set off an in home style detector?
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Thanks; I am probly not qualified to understand.Dandy. . . the boat left. . . and you missed it!
Nope, but the numbers are too few. DAN readily admits that they have no idea how many diver deaths were caused by CO but written off as other, usually drowning - much less how many close calls were written off as traveler's flu.You're the only diver using air, and carrying a CO meter.
Yep, I am well aware of those two points as well as that CO is often found along with the oil. We do know the air was bad; we do not know if CO was also involved along with other possible toxins. You don't know; no one knows; but the chances are increased for CO on this case.CO is odorless, and tasteless, but Oil contamination, mold, dirt and other contaminates leave a mild to stinking reaction to the air in a tank.
I never doubt her advice, just wonder if she is a little subtle at times. Perhaps not.Your doubts about her advice to get medical evaluation was WRONG.
Nope. Worthless in this situation.just a curiousity question......since carbon monoxide is colorless,odorless,,,,just to test a tank,if there was carbon monoxide in the tank,,do you think a blast out of it would be enough concentration to set off an in home style detector?
Most who have never know. Neither tanks nor bodies are often tested, especially on close calls written off as "some bug."I've never encountered bad air... yet, but I appreciate all the comments here... gives me a lot to think about.
So typical.all he had to say was that his comp and bank system had been checked and it must have been our tank's!!!!!
Wait, no residues found in the tanks or regs...?I tell you what six tanks all went bad at one time? that must be some kind of record.
our regs are fine and have been looked at as well as all the tanks.