Lobster night Sept 30th on the Sunfish so-cal

[Empty V]

Because that's what it is rated for and the hot fill is something that one cannot control in a boating situation, unless you want to hang your tank off the side in the water. If someone filled my HP 119 to 4500psi I would run and run and run. Plus I don't know may people that carry a spare burst disk with them.

Billy

 

[sk8rpj]

I realize for the essence of time they cant control a hot fill, but to counteract a hot fill you overfill the tank to around 4,000 so that way when it cools down the person still has an acceptable fill. Take you 119 to a dive shop and they will fill it to a hot 4000 and that way when you pick it up you dont feel like you got short changed. Im in no way saying fill a 3442 to 4500. I will gurantee that Andy has some extra burst disks on the boat because burst disks can fail during a normal fill.

 

[Empty V]

If anyone overfilled my HP tank by 500+ PSI I would be seriously pissed off. When I take my 119 to a dive shop they have tubs of water they put the tanks in to prevent hot fills. Plus, unless there is a lens between your tank and the sun and it' 125 degrees outside, there is no way you will burn off 500+ psi. If I'm filling your tank you'll be lucky if I give you a 2000psi fill. It's only fair to every other diver on the boat. It sounds like the less time you spend in the water, the safer everyone else is.

If you use all of a HP 119 or 130 then you're either breathing too hard or not considering every other diver on the boat and risk not being able to do a 4th dive.

I've never heard of anyone overfilling a tank by 500+ unless it's specified in the first year of it's first hydro, and that's only for LP tanks.

Billy

 

[sk8rpj]

No I dont dive a 119 or a 130. I have enough control of my breathing where I do an hour dive on an 80 and still have 700-800 left. Thats with doing my dive at 60 or 70 feet. Yes dive shops do fill a tank in water and it makes a huge difference, but it still gets hot enough to where they overfill it by some to make up for the cool down. The + rating for tanks not only applies to the first year of the first hydro, the plus will apply for as long as the tank will pass the hydro with the plus rating.

 

[Johnoly]

The + rating for tanks doesn't apply to the first year of the first hydro,...............

So for the first year of the new tank the plus doesn't apply?

 

[Empty V]

The + rating for tanks not only applies to the first year of the first hydro

So for the first year of the new tank the plus doesn't apply?

Damn, I guess I've been doing it wrong this whole time.

Now sk8rpj (very clever name by the way, using the 8 to form skater) I doubt you'll be on the boat so stop hijacking my thread, once again, and bug someone else with your boredom. Go freedive because according to you that's what real hunters do.

Billy

 

[sk8rpj]

I wont be on the boat. Andy is commercial and he is a great captain but trapping lobster and putting divers in spots where bugs are is a completely different thing. With trapping you are trying to put it into a spot where you think that they will be migrating through.

 

[Empty V]

this trip has been cancelled