Item found in Scuba Tank during VIS, Need help identifying!!!

[Thalassamania]

That's an attachment for a tank dryer.

 

[HowardE]

That's an attachment for a tank dryer.

And...

Should not be in a scuba tank.

 

[slaughter_jimmy]

ahhhh, ok. Thanks. Where would it have come from? Seems homemade but this is the second vis its been through and it was hydro'd last year and no one said anything about it till this shop. I am really glad I hadnt used the tank yet. Thanks for all the input everyone. I cannot believe how fast you all were with your answers and helping me out. Thanks alot.

 

[Thalassamania]

Well ... should not be left in a scuba tank. It is use to blow and circulate warm air to dry the tank. I wonder where the hydro station thinks that it went? That could be amusing.

 

[smorneau]

It looks like the Pied Piper's flute!

 

[krawlings]

ahhhh, ok. Thanks. Where would it have come from? Seems homemade but this is the second vis its been through and it was hydro'd last year and no one said anything about it till this shop. I am really glad I hadnt used the tank yet. Thanks for all the input everyone. I cannot believe how fast you all were with your answers and helping me out. Thanks alot.

In would sumize that the shop that did your viz did not even open the tank after it's last Hydro and took your money and slapped a sticker on it and sent you on your way. And a way is what I would to with that shop ,stay a way from them .I would not trust any service they did on my gear

 

[slaughter_jimmy]

Well I have moved far far away from that place and will never use them again, even if I moved back.

 

[steveharriss]

Hardly surprising the shop didn't recognize it..... it has nothing to do with scuba and is not a dip tube. Whoever opened the cylinder last had to have put that into the cylinder because they'd sure as hell have removed it had they spotted it. I'm guessing it's some kind of 'home made' mixing stick but I can't believe anyone would make one out of wood! Your last cylinder inspector has done you a favour

---------- Post added January 3rd, 2013 at 10:17 AM ----------

Why would anyone make a 'tank dryer' out of wood?

 

[rddvet]

Here's my assumption. A visual inspection is a required part of a hydro. The hydro guy does the vis first because if it fails, why hydro it? They hydro'd it, dried the tank on their drying stand and when they flipped the tank over didn't even notice that they knocked off the dryer attachment. They put the tank back together and there's it's lived. I'm surprised nobody heard it tinking around in there, but maybe it's not heavy enough.

The big question is if you brought the tank to a shop and they send out for hydro and vis, why didn't they vis it after hydro? According to many many shop owners, you send the tank out, the hydro guy viz's and hydroes and it comes back to the shop and the shop does their own vis too to cover their ass. In reality, I see tons of shops that just use the viz the hydro guy did and then slap their sticker on it so that you get charged hydro and viz. I don't really care personally either way because regardless it's being hydro'd and viz'd, but I think it's more an issue of what type of liability the shop is OK with.

 

[Thalassamania]

Wood is just part of the question. Tank dryers are usually a rack that holds the cylinder neck down so that it can drain while something like that piece of wood directs air up into the tank. I don't see how that thing could get left inside the tank.