Thinking back I realized a near miss I could relay.
Some time ago I managed to get a fill from an unknown source. A friend's friend had a compressor and did paintball fills.
Younger, and just happy to have air, I dove it without thought.
Air tasted funny after a few minutes into the dive, though I might have dipped the reg mouthpiece in the oily bottom of my canoe the previous post dive. Continued to 30ft, splitting headache developed. I'm not one to have headaches so I made my way to the shallows as it progressively got worse. Felt like brain freeze. Thought my hood might be choking me. Some confusion and I wasn't particularly coordinated.
Back on shore I smelled the air, burnt oil flavored. Drained the tank, did a quick viz. A fairly good coating of blackish brown oil inside.
Turns out he needed to rebuild his compressor and was trying to get a few more fills out of it waiting for the parts.
Unnecessary near miss from my earlier days. Had been taught to always smell my air, didn't make it a habit until after that day. Co2 is oderless but some other contaminates can be detected by smell and are well worth detecting. Sniff!
Regards,
Cameron
Some time ago I managed to get a fill from an unknown source. A friend's friend had a compressor and did paintball fills.
Younger, and just happy to have air, I dove it without thought.
Air tasted funny after a few minutes into the dive, though I might have dipped the reg mouthpiece in the oily bottom of my canoe the previous post dive. Continued to 30ft, splitting headache developed. I'm not one to have headaches so I made my way to the shallows as it progressively got worse. Felt like brain freeze. Thought my hood might be choking me. Some confusion and I wasn't particularly coordinated.
Back on shore I smelled the air, burnt oil flavored. Drained the tank, did a quick viz. A fairly good coating of blackish brown oil inside.
Turns out he needed to rebuild his compressor and was trying to get a few more fills out of it waiting for the parts.
Unnecessary near miss from my earlier days. Had been taught to always smell my air, didn't make it a habit until after that day. Co2 is oderless but some other contaminates can be detected by smell and are well worth detecting. Sniff!
Regards,
Cameron