I've asked DAN about this and some other folks, but haven't posted here before and I'm curious what people think because I don't really have any satisfactory solutions.
My wife and like to sail and dive. We will fly somewhere, charter a sailboat and use it as a platform to dive on our own. We are pretty conservative, staying well within NDLs and never go below 60ft or so when we do this. If we want to be more adventurous, we'll find a local charter and do a dive or two with them. We have a full complement of safety equipment, first aid, etc., but one thing I have not yet figured out is emergency O2. It's not really something you can rent from a local dive shop. Gee, do you mind if I run off with your emergency O2 for a week or two?! The only thing DAN was able to tell me is that perhaps I could carry an empty tank on the plane and then have it refilled locally. My instructor suggested that we could seek out local tec shops and rent stage cylinders with 100% O2 from them, but I have no tec certs and I'm not sure what it would take to get a local shop to do this. Some kind of tec cert? Advanced O2 provider?
Has anyone else out there dealt with this? Obviously there isn't enough demand for this type of thing for a rental business to grow up around it.
Thanks for the thoughts,
Tom
My wife and like to sail and dive. We will fly somewhere, charter a sailboat and use it as a platform to dive on our own. We are pretty conservative, staying well within NDLs and never go below 60ft or so when we do this. If we want to be more adventurous, we'll find a local charter and do a dive or two with them. We have a full complement of safety equipment, first aid, etc., but one thing I have not yet figured out is emergency O2. It's not really something you can rent from a local dive shop. Gee, do you mind if I run off with your emergency O2 for a week or two?! The only thing DAN was able to tell me is that perhaps I could carry an empty tank on the plane and then have it refilled locally. My instructor suggested that we could seek out local tec shops and rent stage cylinders with 100% O2 from them, but I have no tec certs and I'm not sure what it would take to get a local shop to do this. Some kind of tec cert? Advanced O2 provider?
Has anyone else out there dealt with this? Obviously there isn't enough demand for this type of thing for a rental business to grow up around it.
Thanks for the thoughts,
Tom