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I also slightly grit my teeth against the ever prevalent concept that nitrox is so much more dangerous than air that we need to emply all sorts of special procedures for it. Old habits die really really hard.
I always analyze.. However, if I can get out of the door without signing a book, im happy. I hate filling them out. Sometimes, I have to, sometimes I don't.
A dive shop that I have been going to (out of convenience) does nitrox fills. When you pick up your tank, they have a book where you enter the O2 percentage and MOD, with your name and signature.
I'm curious: For other nitrox divers out there, does your LDS make you do something similar?
While I'm not a lawyer, I would think it is just the opposite. The function of the LDS log is to document that the diver DID analyze their own tank, in the presence of witnesses, and attested to that fact.
Further, by the LDS keeping a log, it demonstrates that the LDS is not giving out tanks to non-nitrox certified divers, which is an additional limit should someone do their own fill or get a fill elsewhere and try to pin liability back on the LDS.
It must be understood that just about anyone can be named in a legal action, and the costs associated with simply demonstrating that there can't be liability because of appropriate behavior can be exceedingly costly. A log would seem to go a long way to showing that including an LDS in such a suit would be frivolous.
But that is the perspective of a non-lawyer based solely on what I've read about in terms of a small number of actual cases given as examples in various articles on instructor and LDS liability.