Salmonboy97
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I know of other divers and instructors with damages but I cannot tell their story for them.
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Here I thought the whole idea of a suit was to have a judge look at the evidence and apply the law to both parties.
If the dive shop owner would pay for my damages, I wouldnt have anything to dispute, and nothing for a judge to decide.
Furthermore, if the dive shop owner, (who knows me and has my phone number) had called ME when he realized he had a compressor problem, and was pumping oil and water into scuba cylinders, the situation would be much different. Instead he waited for me to find out I had a problem and come after him!
I am not an attorney but I am in the insurance industry. If there were physical injuries you might have seen the inside of a courthouse. Obviously the shop owner was a sloppy non-caring business person who could have seriously injured someone or worse. If it's any consolation he probaly lost tens of thousands of dollars during his short stint in the business due to his shortcomings. Like missdirected indicated earlier you proabaly could never extract settelment from him anyway but his insurance carrier maybe...
I just got back from meeting with Scott of Sunrise Scuba. He agreed to let me take some store merchandise as collateral until he sells his remaining inventory and pay me cash.
I now have a BC, Octo, Alt air source, console w/nitrox computer, compass. All this gear is Genesis, brand new with the tags.
Hopefully he will be able to "cash out" later but if not at least I have some gear I can sell to offset my loss.
Thanks to all posters to this thread, even the ones who said I was in this for the money. I dont hold that assumption against you, you dont know me, or much of the details. ( I really couldnt post much of the hearsay )
Scuba air quality in the state of Florida is required to be CGA Grade E (or better) and required to be tested quarterly by LAW as per Florida Statute 381.895.
I know of only two fill stations here Fort Lauderdale that comply
Compressed Air Standards for Recreational Diving
Walk into most shops with a copy of this and you'll get the "deer in the headlights" response far more times than not.
Interesting. Thanks for posting it.
I wonder if the local health departments enforce the quarterly reports. I'm guessing not.
64E-20.002 Testing and Standards.
(1) The Department of Health hereby adopts and incorporates by reference the Grade "E" air quality standard cited in the Commodity Specification for Air, CGA G-7.1-1997, published by the Compressed Gas Association (CGA) as their standard for maximum allowable level of contaminants.
(2) Providers must submit to the Department of Health on a quarterly basis the test results from an accredited laboratory.These test results may be provided to the Department of Health, Bureau of Facility Programs, by e-mail, facsimile transmission, by regular mail or as described on voluntary DH form 4125, 1/2000.
I'm not aware of any enforcement taking place whatsoever. The caveat to that is that once a standard or regulation has gone unenforced for a while, it can become unenforceable.