Calling out the Nitrox Posers!

[Meng_Tze]

Sure it's useful. It says "Analyse this tank before use." That's the point of the tank marking. Nothing more complicated than that. (Oh, and in the case of the "Hodag Gas" it could range from about 14% to 40% oxygen, and 0% to 79% Nitrogen... we use "Deco Gas" for mixes above 40% and "Oxygen" for oxygen - but that's just our Hodag convention.)
Rick

Well, I dont have bright in your face stickers on my tanks. They are my tanks, I mark them (content) with some ductape only. My deco and stages have MOD and initals only. If someone decides to take my tanks (which is very unlikely since I am with them all the time)... good luck to them...... hope you know what you are doing.. 10/45

 

[TrickyRicky]

Up here we call them Hosers!

 

[Canadian.Diver]

Well crazy fingers , I did not read every posting , but it seems your not getting much support on on your view point. But I will always throw a drowning man a life ring. So I agree that at times this type of thing raises my eye brow. Besides others views on reasons for this behavior you can usually spot these from the posers as you put it. I know of a guy who has a jean jacket that has a badge for every course hes ever taken or any other dive related badge or message you can imagine. He starts evey sentence off with ' being a dive master...' . While I live ,eat and sleep diving, I certainly can get a chuckle from those whose actions seem to be above and beyond. There will always be people who have the need to let everybody else know what they know or think they know. For these people it would be more important that everyone on the beach know that they are a diver than the dive itself. That all being said I do love to see people who are enthusiastic about diving. So when you see these guys have a chuckle and go diving. Be safe.

 

[RJP]

Okay, I can't stand it any longer. For the record, I am nitrox certified. This means I know what nitrox is , when it can be useful, and when it can be dangerous. But it seems every time I am at some popular, shallow shore dive there is some buffoon there breathing nitrox.

I think they look like idiots and are just trying to show off to non-nitrox divers and chicks on the beach.

Am I way off base here?

Off base? Maybe. Perhaps you're even a buffoon.

Everyone dives nitrox on every dive.

If you paid attention in your nitrox class then you know that nitrox is ANY mixture of nitrogen and oxygen - including 21%.

Further, you should also recall that a tank that is to be used for ENRICHED AIR NITROX has to be O2 cleaned and is usually labelled with a big giant green and yellow sticker that says NITROX on it.

I have two tanks that are set up in that way. The big green and yellow stickers on them that say NITROX are on those tanks all the time. They are on the tanks if I am diving 36% EANx or if I am diving 21% O2.

Unless you are running around with an analyzer checking all those tanks with big green and yellow stickers to see what blend people are diving, you really have no earthly idea what they are diving.

 

[RJP]

I, personally, would have a dedicated air tank to save money on cleaning...

I would think that would take a LONG LONG time to pay back financially. My two steel 119 "nitrox" tanks cost $375 each. How many years would it take for buying another one to make sense in order to avoid the costs associated with keeping my current tanks in 02 service? Further, I would need TWO more "air" tanks - not just one - for this to make sense, because where I dive there's no place to get a fill so I would need two tanks if I wanted to do more than one dive.

Can't see how laying out $750 is gonna save me money.

In fact, now that I think about your suggestion, it makes ZERO sense. Why? Because I have to pay to keep the other two tanks in O2 service anyway.

 

[Soggy]

Sure it's useful. It says "Analyse this tank before use." That's the point of the tank marking. Nothing more complicated than that. (Oh, and in the case of the "Hodag Gas" it could range from about 14% to 40% oxygen, and 0% to 79% Nitrogen... we use "Deco Gas" for mixes above 40% and "Oxygen" for oxygen - but that's just our Hodag convention.)
Rick

Compressed gas in a cylinder tells me "analyze before use."

 

[Soggy]

Further, you should also recall that a tank that is to be used for ENRICHED AIR NITROX has to be O2 cleaned and is usually labelled with a big giant green and yellow sticker that says NITROX on it.

Not true, nitrox tanks only have to be O2 cleaned if they are seeing O2% higher than 40% (i.e. partial pressure blending). Many places have premix of 40%ish that they blend down to whatever nitrox mix the customer wants to avoid the pure O2 problem. The big green sticker does *not* in any way indicate O2 clean status. That is a marking on the VIP sticker, or is provided with a second, separate O2 clean sticker.

 

[Oriskany Divemaster]

The whole Nitrox attracting chicks is true. Many days I'll parade myself--donned only in my Speedo and a tank of Nitrox--up and down the white sands of Pensacola Beach. I never really get in the water, I just walk to the next group of chicks, and without acknowledging them, I point toward the gulf, then...and this really gets 'em hot--I shade my eyes, as if peering at something very dangerous and then contemplating on my best method of entry. Each time I've met some hotties. Sure they' play it cool by "threatening" to have the lifeguards make me leave, but they know that I know that they know I'm Smokin' Hot with the Trox. That's how I roll.

 

[murrayp4]

I'm Smokin' Hot with the Trox. That's how I roll.

LMAO

P.S. I feel real sorry for the OP!

 

[RJP]

The whole Nitrox attracting chicks is true. Many days I'll parade myself--donned only in my Speedo and a tank of Nitrox--up and down the white sands of Pensacola Beach.

I wear a regular bathing suit, but I slip a "Spare Air" down the front.