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And to whomever thinks the dive ops in Coz don't care about CO, it was one of the Coz dive ops that posts regularly in this forum that got the pumping station to add CO meters inline.
What if any dive ops in Coz check their own tanks for CO regularly?
Dive operators in Cozumel and the world over don't check for CO [in individual tanks] because they see no reason to. If you own a dive business and have been running it for lets say 10 years and never had a CO poisoning issue, if there is no corroboration or consensus through your peers in the dive industry that CO poisoning is a problem, if no official agencies are saying CO poisoning isn't a problem being reported to them, why would you do anything different then you've done for all the years you've been in operation? I think if you were a fly on the wall at a private dive shop owner get together over a few beers that they'd pretty much be looking at all this recent interest by a few divers at individual tank testing of CO as a joke, just a passing faze with no grounds to give it any real attention, other than for the benefits of marketing but certainly not for safety.
Dive shops might not be saying anything publicly one way or the other, but their inactions certainly speak volumes to what their private feelings are on the subject. I don't think we should paint their inaction as uncaring [note the word 'uncaring'] to an important issue, but as their perception of ambivalence to something they don't feel is really a problem that deserves all this attention.
IT IS MEXICO YOU KNOW.
In the US, yeah, I would seriously doubt it would ever happen. But outside the US......possible for sure.
The only way to 1) know 2) make sure is for more Ops and people to test more tanks. Show me that no one gets high readings and I will then believe it never happens. Until then, I will assume it COULD happen and is in the realm of possibility.
IT IS MEXICO YOU KNOW.
I don't think we should paint their inaction as uncaring to an important issue, but as their perception of ambivalence to something they don't feel is really a problem that deserves all this attention.
You really touch on a great point right there. With enough divers testing on their own, there will reach a point eventually where one way or another the word will get out whether there really is problem or not.