First of all, I am a technical diver and instructor, so my opinion or vision about things changed since I started diving. Sometimes something happens and you start to think about how it is told or written and maybe it can or has to be improved. I especially posted this topic in the basic scuba as I am curious about what (less) experienced recreational divers are learned or do. Or what they think about it. There is no right or wrong answer. If you don't know anything about analyzing gases, that is not a problem, I also did not when I finished my open water course. Also beginners in diving can answer.
So let's start:
When you did your open water course or your advanced open water course, was there anything told about analyzing cylinders? Or was it: we dive air, so we don't need to do?
I do not talk about nitrox, every nitrox diver must know that they have to analyse their nitrox.
But do you analyse your air? And if you are nitrox certified, did you start with it after a nitrox course?
When I started, I did not know anything about analyzing or labeling a cylinder when I did my open water course. Nothing was told about that. It is also not written in de books. There was told about a specialty course nitrox for longer ndl, but nothing more.
When I did my nitrox 'course' (just 1.5 hour), I analysed a tank, had to fill in the filling list, had to fill in a sticker on my tank and that's it. I never learned to analyse tanks with air, or probably air. It was the first time then that I saw an analyser.
When I fill tanks in a fillingstation that fills air and nitrox, nobody asks me to analyse air here.
It is only a procedure to be done when you fill nitrox.
But I have had some nitroxfills when it must be air. So I analyse now. But this was never told to me as 'must do'.
So let's start:
When you did your open water course or your advanced open water course, was there anything told about analyzing cylinders? Or was it: we dive air, so we don't need to do?
I do not talk about nitrox, every nitrox diver must know that they have to analyse their nitrox.
But do you analyse your air? And if you are nitrox certified, did you start with it after a nitrox course?
When I started, I did not know anything about analyzing or labeling a cylinder when I did my open water course. Nothing was told about that. It is also not written in de books. There was told about a specialty course nitrox for longer ndl, but nothing more.
When I did my nitrox 'course' (just 1.5 hour), I analysed a tank, had to fill in the filling list, had to fill in a sticker on my tank and that's it. I never learned to analyse tanks with air, or probably air. It was the first time then that I saw an analyser.
When I fill tanks in a fillingstation that fills air and nitrox, nobody asks me to analyse air here.
It is only a procedure to be done when you fill nitrox.
But I have had some nitroxfills when it must be air. So I analyse now. But this was never told to me as 'must do'.
