Quiz - Equipment - Dropped Scuba Tank

[scubadada]

What is a significant height?

As in the quiz question: It's recommended that a scuba tank that has fallen from a moving vehicle or been dropped from a significant height is _____ before filling and use.

 

[rhwestfall]

If you are asking me, it was out of the back of an SUV hatch, and 2-3' at best (so the valve was about another 2 feet above that)..

 

[HKGuns]

 

[lexvil]

For me there wasn’t enough info to go full hydro.

I had my rig fall off on my BAT (big a@@ truck) right onto my Kraken, it was laying down but something shifted and down it went, as soon as I get home I took it in the pool, everything worked fine, yoke bent a few chunks off of the can and later found a hairline crack in the can. Used a solvent I had and welded the pieces back on and sealed the crack and dove it.

 

[BlueTrin]

For me there wasn’t enough info to go full hydro.

I had my rig fall off on my BAT (big a@@ truck) right onto my Kraken, it was laying down but something shifted and down it went, as soon as I get home I took it in the pool, everything worked fine, yoke bent a few chunks off of the can and later found a hairline crack in the can. Used a solvent I had and welded the pieces back on and sealed the crack and dove it.

Missing option in the poll:

e. weld the damaged bits

 

[tursiops]

MythBusters Special 8: JAWS Special

 

[jonhall]

MythBusters Special 8: JAWS Special

You can't go wrong with MythBusters!

 

[TMHeimer]

What is a significant height?

As in the quiz question: It's recommended that a scuba tank that has fallen from a moving vehicle or been dropped from a significant height is _____ before filling and use.

Good question. Guess I got this wrong as I guess the answer is a Hydro test. I'm surprised I've never come across that advice. Looks like I'm not the only one. Maybe it was covered in the DM course and I just forgot?
I should have figured that dropping it would mean structural damage and not something on the inside that a visual would now find. I didn't think it through.

 

[scubadada]

Good question. Guess I got this wrong as I guess the answer is a Hydro test. I'm surprised I've never come across that advice. Looks like I'm not the only one. Maybe it was covered in the DM course and I just forgot?
I should have figured that dropping it would mean structural damage and not something on the inside that a visual would now find. I didn't think it through.

No, I'm with you, I put down visual inspection, we'll see when @Pedro Burrito reveals todays answer.

 

[rhwestfall]

one needs to understand what each investigation (visual & hydro) includes...