How you ID your Deco tanks

[Michael Guerrero]

As for my tanks Brendon, I have two deco gases in mind, 50 and 80%, 100% I see it as a none flixeble gas and the difference between 80 is small.

Dude...the U.S. Navy allows 2.0 ppO2 as normal. Please understand that the standards applied by the (largely wealthy U.S. and European) dive industry is inherently risk averse and likely to overstate the risk. Breathe 80% at 20ft or 30ft, breath 100% at 20ft or 30ft. You're not going to see much difference. The sack of sludge (meat, water, goo) that humans are is not some delicate flower where any slight modification in %O2 is going to be the tipping point where you either live or die.

 

[Michael Guerrero]

If he is going to be taking technical diving in the future, he better mark the tanks the way his instructor prefers,

Your instructor is not Jesus. He might just be some dumb idiot that was able to pass a course. Must you confine yourself to the limits of your (potentially inferior) instructor?

 

[Michael Guerrero]

Why 9m? Is that a safety factor for 80% which is a 10m MOD?

Yes it is, as well 21m for 50%

White paint pen

I'm looking for something that reflects light, I believe that white in not enough, correct me if I'm wrong.

3M makes reflective tape, but I don't know if it will hold on to the rubber from my fins, any one had tried some kind of glue that will not be affected by normal and salt water ?

Buy Solas tape.

 

[KevinNM]

Your instructor is not Jesus. He might just be some dumb idiot that was able to pass a course. Must you confine yourself to the limits of your (potentially inferior) instructor?

If you can't follow his simple instructions on the easy stuff I suspect the difficulty of getting a card has just increased.

The Truth About Van Halen And Those Brown M&Ms

 

[Remy B.]

Dude...the U.S. Navy allows 2.0 ppO2 as normal. Please understand that the standards applied by the (largely wealthy U.S. and European) dive industry is inherently risk averse and likely to overstate the risk. Breathe 80% at 20ft or 30ft, breath 100% at 20ft or 30ft. You're not going to see much difference. The sack of sludge (meat, water, goo) that humans are is not some delicate flower where any slight modification in %O2 is going to be the tipping point where you either live or die.

You keep diving to your 2.0 and I do what I considere better for me.

Yes I know you can do higher PPO, not everybody reacts the same.

I believe there is something called oxigen narcotic effect, that I'm not willing to find my self out how does it feel, I have enough with CO2 buildup and N2

 

[Jack Hammer]

White paint on black fins sticks out well in low vis. I can see peoples name on the fin long before i see them. A white or yellow fin is even easier to spot too, if you're looking to those...

 

[Remy B.]

End result for my 19cf Deco 80% tank, with some of the recommendations given.

 

[stuartv]

View attachment 388132 End result for my 19cf Deco 80% tank, with some of the recommendations given.

By my training, that big 9M on the side is upside down. My training is to have that deco cylinder slung on my left. The writing would be on the side of the cylinder that faces away from me and oriented to be readable by my buddy, when I hold it out (without unclipping) to show him before I actually switch to breathing from it. So, the writing would be turned around the other way so my buddy could read it properly.

 

[Remy B.]

I use my rich Deco 80% on my right and the 50% on my left. ( I know most carry all the Deco tanks on the left, but I prefer to separate them, this is something of my own decision, not saying it is correct. )

If I will only carry the 50% it will stay on my left.

 

[DevonDiver]

I know most carry all the Deco tanks on the left,...

I'm wondering what the actual split between 'all left' and 'rich-right/lean-left' really is.

I see more divers carrying tanks on both sides...so I'm surprised to hear someone say they thought "most" divers wore tanks all-left. Is it a regional thing?