LDS tales - fact or fantasy?

[MXGratefulDiver]

My ex-wife told me this morning that her LDS owner informed her yesterday that the federal government has passed new regulations for 2006 regarding nitrox fills, and that starting January 1st no one will legally be able to get a nitrox fill without a big NITROX wrap on their tank (new wrinkle on old story, perhaps?) ... those wraps have been a shop policy of his all along, and he's got very strong views about any shop that'll fill a nitrox cylinder without one. Now he's insisting that those shops will be doing so illegally.

She asked what about people with their own compressors, and he told her that those people will also need wraps, or if anything bad happens their insurance won't cover them.

Dunno about anyone else ... but it does seem to me that many of these guys get a bit "creative" with reality at times.

So what's your favorite LDS tale ... and what effect did it have on your ability to take the author of the tale seriously?

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Wayward Son]

Had one in Nashville in 1984. My bud & I were getting ready for our annual camping trip to Dale Hollow lake & he needed to rent a tank. Only one bc there was a fill station there.

Well, this lying SOB tells us that we need rent however many tanks we plan to dive bc the fill station isn't there any more. We were young & poor, so we took the 1 tank & went any way, figuring we'd at least get 1 dive in. Got up there & found the guys still filling tanks, he told us that Harold had been singing that same lie to groups of divers all summer. They were coming up with truckloads of tanks & not buying fills bc of it.

How did it effect me? I never set foot in the son of a *****'s shop again. I don't trade with people after I catch them lying to me for their own gain.

 

[Mark Vlahos]

My ex-wife told me this morning that her LDS owner informed her yesterday that the federal government has passed new regulations for 2006 regarding nitrox fills, and that starting January 1st no one will legally be able to get a nitrox fill without a big NITROX wrap on their tank (new wrinkle on old story, perhaps?) ... those wraps have been a shop policy of his all along, and he's got very strong views about any shop that'll fill a nitrox cylinder without one. Now he's insisting that those shops will be doing so illegally.

She asked what about people with their own compressors, and he told her that those people will also need wraps, or if anything bad happens their insurance won't cover them.

Dunno about anyone else ... but it does seem to me that many of these guys get a bit "creative" with reality at times.

So what's your favorite LDS tale ... and what effect did it have on your ability to take the author of the tale seriously?

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

That is a good one, I primarily dive in three areas. Florida, where nobody seems to care about the big wraps, but they do care about the usually small O2 clean or Oxygen Service sticker. Southern California, which is pretty much like Florida in regard to the goofy tank wraps and stickers. Northern Virginia, where the big goofy wraps are pretty much required unless you want to have a long conversation about the fact that the big wrap really means nothing but the little Oxygen Service sticker is far more important. Of course as you can tell, my cylinders get partial pressure fills. In northern Virginia the shops usually want the cylinder to be cleaned for Oxygen Service even for a banked fill to above 23.5%, but that is a different discussion altogether. I will admit that I have less trouble if I bring in my doubles when compared to single cylinders.

Different strokes for different folkes, but a Federal law... nice. eyebrow

Mark Vlahos