nitrox analyzers in cozumel

[DandyDon]

So reading the Meridiano tags is sort of like analyzing right?

(I can't find the LAUGHING smilie)
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Pretty much. Then again does everyone go down and sump test the fuel on the commercial aircraft that hauls them up 7 miles into the air, before boarding? Bottom line you are trusting your life daily based upon the assumtion that others have done their job correctly. Now if I had no experiance with a paticular filler and had a tester, then yes I would be more dilagent about testing my tanks.

Did you skip the class and bribe the instructor to give you a voodoo gas card? Retest...!!

There is a vast difference between the quality of training, regulations, etc. of commercial aviation fuel vs fill station jockeys & flunkies with masking tape.

 

[gopbroek]

There is a vast difference between the quality of training, regulations, etc. of commercial aviation fuel vs fill station jockeys & flunkies with masking tape.

Well at least on paper there is.

 

[islanddream]

At the Blue Angel we must analyze our tanks either with their analyzer in the shop or our own before the tanks are put on the boat.

 

[cvchief]

flunkies with masking tape.​

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Those are custom made Nitrox tags with the percentage listed to tenths!!!

 

[mstevens]

What backer number were You?

I don't actually know. My wife did the pledge and can't find that information in her emails.

Have you responded to the survey that came via Kickstarter?

Yes

I believe coming Monday we will have shipped out all the rewards - except to a handful of backers that have not yet responded to the survey (so we do not have their address)

Ours arrived today! I'm impressed so far, but the only cylinder I have here is air so not much in the way of actual testing yet. This looks as if it'll be much more usable on a boat in Cozumel than our Maxtec MaxO2.

 

[mmmbelows]

If the dive op has tanks for me waiting on the boat, I would not dive them unless I had analyzed them, and I would expect such a dive op to provide an analyzer on the boat. The ops that I have used in Cozumel had analyzers on the boat, and it looked to me like everyone analyzed their tanks.

Wow, I can't believe there are answers other than ones like this being posted. Not analyzing your nitrox tanks, might as well continue with the crazy behavior, next thing try for the 2nd dive wearing someone else dive computer from the 1st dive. In all this time I've yet to dive with any outfit that didn't make me analyze my own nitrox tanks and sign a log. Anybody not doing that would be a big red flag to me.

 

[cvchief]

Wow, I can't believe there are answers other than ones like this being posted. Not analyzing your nitrox tanks, might as well continue with the crazy behavior, next thing try for the 2nd dive wearing someone else dive computer from the 1st dive. In all this time I've yet to dive with any outfit that didn't make me analyze my own nitrox tanks and sign a log. Anybody not doing that would be a big red flag to me.

Do you check for CO too? Coz divers have been hit in the past with CO. Never heard of a nitrox problem on the island.

 

[mmmbelows]

Good reasoning. Good to know that there has never been a miss-labeled or incorrectly filled nitrox tank in Cozumel and there never will be.

 

[cvchief]

Good reasoning. Good to know that there has never been a miss-labeled or incorrectly filled nitrox tank in Cozumel and there never will be.

Maybe there has been and maybe there will be? I dunno. There has been CO. I just wonder (on Dandy Don's behalf) how you reconcile testing nitrox is in the ten commandments, but testing for CO is not even venial. Just seems if you are big on one, you ought to be big on both?

I have no idea what Merry-D does about testing for CO. I guess they have something. On the other hand I know that someone tested each tank and attached a specific % to it.

To quote Doc Vikingo:

"No organization appears to be tracking — or at least is not reporting on — the issue of CO poisoning in divers. However, obviously there are more than a trivial number of cases, as evidenced by DAN’s donation of 10 Analox fixed-compressor CO monitors to fill stations in Cozumel, Costa Maya and Riviera Maya in December 2011 and January 2012."

http://www.scubadiving.com/training/ask-expert/ask-expert-should-you-co-test-every-tank


Of course I am not against testing. I encourage everyone to check their nitrox. I just take a lackadaisical approach to my own.

 

[DandyDon]

I have no idea what Merry-D does about testing for CO. I guess they have something.

They were given inline monitors before DAN pulled their heads out of the sand and donated others, but they ignored them on some occasions.