CT-Rich
Contributor
Unfortunatel, the change in temperature will a have a big impact, so this experiment is hard to do.Because you bleed it out by breathing through regulator. Take a spare tank with a pressure gauge on the tank that shows, say 3000 psig and don't breathe from it and see if that spare tank pressure would go down or not. I bet it'll stay the same at 3000 psig at depth.
I was watching a video about wreck of the Hornet in~1,500 m of water. One of the pictures showed an oxy-acetaline tank that was completely pancaked from the pressur.