piikki
Contributor
If you kill yourself, especially if you kill yourself below the MOD, they have proof that you were aware of the contents of your tank and what the limitation was.
I know this has been beaten to death in more than one thread already but obviously my lazy self is not letting go. We had one of the local shops require that everyone PERSONALLY come pick up and sign their tanks. This meant that even when they knew that spouses, family members and buddies came to pick up tanks for each other it was no good. They could not analyze for each other even when the shop knew or had even themselves EAN-certified all the divers in question (and very well knew all were proficient in analyzing and marking the tanks - and even people with decent heads on their shoulders). However, it was OK for eg spouses to analyze the tanks for each other while both were at the shop while one was just bull****ting with the staff and not even looking over the process/verifying.
I found this ridiculous and went kind of hard at it to get it changed. It is quite an inconvenience we can't pick tanks for each other if they have EAN in them, esp if we are well-known to the shop. This is all the more ridiculous when the shop only controlled this for divers whose tanks they knew. Other divers could be picking up and distributing 20 EAN tanks to whoever they pleased after analyzing them. There is no proof there other than the person who picked them up knew the analysis process. Diving the tank is altogether another matter.