Off-duty Mountie dies off B.C.'s Snake Island

[Locus]

Ah, thank you. This was a typo on my part. If I can, I will edit my previous post and correct it.

 

[Divegoose]

Right... So the Coroner's report is saying he drowned, but hasn't offered a reason as to why? Was he out of air? If it was observed that his breathing rate was nearly double, presumably this was brought on by the elevated CO2. An elevated CO2 level might have also exacerbated this vague heart issue he seemed to have.

Call me old fashioned, but I would hope that someone is looking into where he got his fills, 'cause it sounds like someone is pumping bad gas, and it might very well have played a role in his death!

That avenue was thoroughly investigated. All records for the shop where he had his cylinders filled were examined. All analysis done over the years showed that the CO2 was within prescribed limits. If the air in Paul's cylinders was bad, I would expect that other people would have had issues. The shop does lots of fills, and not one other diver had any issues (no - I don't work for the shop). Although I haven't read the coroner's report, and I am not a medical expert, I am assuming that slightly elevated CO2 levels, only played a minor role, if any, in this unfortunate event.

Divegoose

 

[DandyDon]

That avenue was thoroughly investigated. All records for the shop where he had his cylinders filled were examined. All analysis done over the years showed that the CO2 was within prescribed limits. If the air in Paul's cylinders was bad, I would expect that other people would have had issues. The shop does lots of fills, and not one other diver had any issues (no - I don't work for the shop).

I am sorry, but all that doesn't prove anything. The fact remains that the tank had elevated levels of CO2, even tho there has not been a known problem before or then. Something was amiss with the tank, even tho it was within more lenient US standards.

Although I haven't read the coroner's report, and I am not a medical expert, I am assuming that slightly elevated CO2 levels, only played a minor role, if any, in this unfortunate event.

That may well be true. Just don't whitewash facts given as it is of interest.

 

[wedivebc]

As Nadwidny has pointed out the only reason the CO2 was even mentioned is because the Canadian Standard for breathing gas deems the acceptable level of CO2 in the breathing gas as 500ppm as opposed the the US standard for grade E breathing air as 1000ppm.
The air in a busy dive shop where humans are breathing and exhaling CO2 can easily exceed 500ppm. CO2 is virtually harmless in doses lower than 50,000ppm or 5%. The numbers measured in this report are quite low, expected and well within safe limits.
As far as the use of hopcalite in a compressor filter it is commonly used to convert very small amounts of a deadly gas , CO to very small amounts of a gas that your own body produces huge amounts of every day.
You guys should really go find some other nits to pick.