Here's a challenge................. Someone produce an incident where a person was injured or killed due to a LP steel (dive bottle) exploding. I don't mean storage bottles, or bottles during hydro, dropping a bottle or anything like that. I mean a steel, LP, dive bottle that exploded while filling, carrying or diving. If it exploded it had to have harmed someone. I think there probably has been an incident or two, but compared to aluminum bottles of the type that has been found to be flawed, I think this is a non-issue that we have beaten to death and back to life.
If you don't feel safe filling to the pressures this thread has talked about than don't. But unless you can substantiate its danger, firsthand, than your point is moot. Remember, diving is about taking care of yourself first. If you can do that you can then help others, be a good buddy, and even a good solo diver. Preaching what you have heard is not always bad as there are good sources of information out there and we can't always experience everything first hand. But not all information is accurate. What matters is "what can I feel comfortable with". What you choose to do is your choice and as long as it doesn't harm me I don't care. That is the choice we all have to make.
