FoSheZZie23
Contributor
So I went to get a tank for a dive tomorrow morning. Unfortunatly maui dive shop was the only place open at 8pm. The guy working there should not be employed in a dive shop anyware.
1) I asked if they had steel or alum tanks. he said they had steel and brought one out for me, a steel 80 he said, and i said well that looks like an alum to me, and he then said no its a steel. Not that it matters to much but it said AL on the side of the damn tank! You would think a dive shop worker would know the difference.
2) I asked if they had any DIN tanks in the back i could rent and he said "no" and then i said oh ok and he returned with "well whats a DIN tank?" and i said it has a different valve than that one (which i pointed to the alum 80 in front of me) and he said oh.
3) He checked the pressure of the tank he was going to give me and it read out 2800, and he asked want me to get another, and i said sure if you dont mind, and i asked him what they normally fill them up to and he said 3200psi. So the second comes out reading 2800 again, and i said thats fine i guess. I said they are probably at 2800 because they filled them mid day when it was hot, and he looks at me blankly like why it would matter if they filled them when it was hot or cold out.
now that i think about it they probably just jacked them full in 20 seconds and when it cooled it went down to 2800. So hopefully dont get to much carbon dioxide in my tank! I guess we will find out.
So all in all, i know all of these thinks are little and probably dont matter but it just irritates me. I would never have gotten a ****ty fill or a dumb *** worker at my LDS in Washington.
**** i dont know a ton about diving and i could run circles around this guy!
1) I asked if they had steel or alum tanks. he said they had steel and brought one out for me, a steel 80 he said, and i said well that looks like an alum to me, and he then said no its a steel. Not that it matters to much but it said AL on the side of the damn tank! You would think a dive shop worker would know the difference.
2) I asked if they had any DIN tanks in the back i could rent and he said "no" and then i said oh ok and he returned with "well whats a DIN tank?" and i said it has a different valve than that one (which i pointed to the alum 80 in front of me) and he said oh.
3) He checked the pressure of the tank he was going to give me and it read out 2800, and he asked want me to get another, and i said sure if you dont mind, and i asked him what they normally fill them up to and he said 3200psi. So the second comes out reading 2800 again, and i said thats fine i guess. I said they are probably at 2800 because they filled them mid day when it was hot, and he looks at me blankly like why it would matter if they filled them when it was hot or cold out.
now that i think about it they probably just jacked them full in 20 seconds and when it cooled it went down to 2800. So hopefully dont get to much carbon dioxide in my tank! I guess we will find out.
So all in all, i know all of these thinks are little and probably dont matter but it just irritates me. I would never have gotten a ****ty fill or a dumb *** worker at my LDS in Washington.
**** i dont know a ton about diving and i could run circles around this guy!
