Oxygen compatibility, materials and explosions

[KevinNM]

Oxygen is one the safest and beneficial gases in use. The old and people with lung disease use oxygen on a daily basis with no problems. But the minute you mention oxygen to divers they get their nickers in a twist.

That's what NASA thought on Jan. 26, 1967. Then Apollo 1 and the 3 astronauts on board got incinerated in a flash fire.

Life on earth has not evolved to deal with elevated oxygen levels, as they are not something encountered in nature. That's why people worry about pulmonary and CNS oxygen toxicity.

Material behavior in high oxygen concentrations, particularly under high pressure, can be very different than it is in air.

It's your life, so do what you want. But realize that pretending that risks do not exist does not mean that they don't exist.

 

[rddvet]

It’s almost like you aren’t reading what people are posting.

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He was blinded in an old oxygen injury and is too prideful to say. Hard reading braile when you lost all but two fingers along with your eyes.

In all seriousness I don't know why we're still responding to this guy. Either he's a troll or he's a guy nobody will ever get through. He has no solid argument, so he argues it's all hearsay. Maybe he should give Renaker a call.

 

[Celt]

You're a little hard headed. Is that an Irish thing or just you....

http://www.metronews.fr/marseille/u...-sur-un-bateau-de-plongee/modl!GYAVVIH4sPa62/
Iraq War Vet Dies in Unlikely Scuba Explosion
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/another-scuba-tank-explosion-resulting-severe-injuries-natasha-naude/
Dive shop damaged after oxygen tank explodes
Oxygen Cylinders: “life” or “death”?
Scuba Tanks as Lethal Weapons: Undercurrent 02/2011
ValuJet Flight 592 - Wikipedia

Want me to keep going with O2 caused accidents from poor handling? I can do this all day.

There will always be accidents, that does not make something unsafe. And your racist remark does nothing for your argument if fact it demeans it.

 

[Beau640]

K clearly trolling at this point

 

[Celt]

He was blinded in an old oxygen injury and is too prideful to say. Hard reading braile when you lost all but two fingers along with your eyes.

In all seriousness I don't know why we're still responding to this guy. Either he's a troll or he's a guy nobody will ever get through. He has no solid argument, so he argues it's all hearsay. Maybe he should give Renaker a call.

Yes I have read the accounts and I have every sympathy for anyone hurt in an accident but accidents happen and that is no reason to demonize oxygen as unsafe, and any incident recounted by a third party is hearsay and unreliable.

 

[swimlikethefish]

 

[Kayakingphotos]

 

[grf88]

Post 26 Option 2.

 

[Jonny Wishbone]

Yes I have read the accounts and I have every sympathy for anyone hurt in an accident but accidents happen and that is no reason to demonize oxygen as unsafe, and any incident recounted by a third party is hearsay and unreliable.

It doesn't even have to be a scuba compressor or a scuba tank. In the sport of paintball, there have been players (mainly kids) who have, in cleaning their equipment, lube either the quick disconnect fitting with WD-40 or a drop of their paintball gun oil. Then they connect to their paintball tank which are most commonly rated for 4500 psi but most only fill to 3000 because alum. 80's are the most common tanks out there and not everyone has a Haskel. This fill blows a bit of the WD-40 or oil into the tank. Just using HP air with only the 21% 02 in it, these tanks have exploded. Same principle as a Diesel engine. The combustion occurs due to the increased pressure even though there is only a smidgen of fuel present. When your compressor finally builds up a smidgen of oil in the right spot,,,,,BOOM

 

[TrimixToo]

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." - Robert A. Heinlein