New Visual Inspection Required Before Filling with Banked Nitrox 32?

[mselenaous]

Your shop, your rules.
My tank, my money, my choice.
If I dont agree, the free enterprise system allows me to quit-my-bitchin and start my own fill business with my own compressor.
That's the competetive market place. May the better service (most knowledgable) prevail.

Happy Diving!
Elena

 

[rwkosh]

2 phreakin' phunni!

If I stopped going to every shop that didn't understand gas handling and filling perfectly (eg the way I do ), I would have to start filling my own. Ya rly! Where do you draw the line? I don't. I learn to work within their framework up until it puts me at risk. Does doing a Visual Inspection put you at risk? No. Does requiring additional cleaning put me at risk? No. How about requiring a NitrOx sticker? Again, no. I've had all these three thrown at me, when I don't believe them to be necessary. I simply let them have their way. Why fight it? It doesn't put me at risk. It doesn't hurt me at all. It might cost me a bit more, but so what? With the amount that diving costs, what's another ten bucks? It's simply not my tipping point that will drive me from a shop or even from diving forever. Life's too short and I would rather not waste 20 minutes either way to save $10. It's simply a matter of perspective.

A part of me agrees with you completely on this. What's another $10 bucks really? It will cost me $6 in gasoline to take my tanks to the next nearest place that banks nitro, so in two trips I'm ahead. But . . . I can't help it. It's the principle of the thing. Maybe I'll get tired of the extra drive and give in, but for now . . . I just cannot.

 

[The Chairman]

You mentioned that this was not the ONLY reason you are going elsewhere. I vote with my fins all the time. Sometimes they ask me why I've been away for so long, and I rarely tell them that I don't enjoy doing business with them. I just don't worry about a shops' knowledge of NitrOx as long as they don't put me in danger.