sharpenu
Contributor
In 2001 I had a mishap where I went to do a dive after getting fills 2 weeks earlier from the Jupiter Dive Center and had to abort the dive because I got a loud buzzing in my ears and felt dizzy at 40 feet. A check of my tanks found oil in all 4 of the ones I had filled there. I called the owner of the shop and he offered to refill them for free. I declined. First, because I live 2 hours away, second because I didn't trust the fills there at the time and third because I had to get all 4 tanks recleaned for O2 service at $30 each. I was not a happy camper.
Three years go by and I am diving there again on a two day weekend trip. I figure I will give them another chance. Maybe it WAS just a one time thing, after all. I bring my empty tanks in on Saturday afternoon and ask for EANx34 for dives I am doing the next morning. I show up Sunday morning and test my mix and what I got was EANx30. Well, with no time to refill, I wound up taking what I could get and went on the trip. As a result, my last dive of the day put me in DECO. This left some time for me to think and be a little peeved while in my DECO stop anout the poor fills I had gotten. If I had the right mix, I feel I would have been well within the NDL. They got a second chance after a bad fill and blew it. They are now 0 for 2, with their poor fills causing 1 aborted dive, 1 cancelled dive, $120 in tank cleaning bills, and an unwanted DECO dive.
So, to make a long story even longer, are there any GOOD shops in the Jupiter area where one can get fills? One that, of course, isn't the Jupiter Dive Center?
Three years go by and I am diving there again on a two day weekend trip. I figure I will give them another chance. Maybe it WAS just a one time thing, after all. I bring my empty tanks in on Saturday afternoon and ask for EANx34 for dives I am doing the next morning. I show up Sunday morning and test my mix and what I got was EANx30. Well, with no time to refill, I wound up taking what I could get and went on the trip. As a result, my last dive of the day put me in DECO. This left some time for me to think and be a little peeved while in my DECO stop anout the poor fills I had gotten. If I had the right mix, I feel I would have been well within the NDL. They got a second chance after a bad fill and blew it. They are now 0 for 2, with their poor fills causing 1 aborted dive, 1 cancelled dive, $120 in tank cleaning bills, and an unwanted DECO dive.
So, to make a long story even longer, are there any GOOD shops in the Jupiter area where one can get fills? One that, of course, isn't the Jupiter Dive Center?