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E nomine patre, et spiritu, sanctu. You are forgiven. Go in peace and sin no more. And don't start crap either or God'll kick your ass! I love it when the priest says that.
Greetings - I teach at a dive shop in San Diego. We only do air fills (no Nitrox or Tri-mix). Recently a couple of Tec Divers came into the shop with these massive doubles filled with Tri-mix, and wanted us to top them off with air.
That's silly, since it has *nothing* to do with topping off trimix. What if the same guy who occasionally also blends O2 in his cylinders came into this guy's store for an air fill (no O2 added), then went diving, and the next day while mixing some O2, blew himself up. According to you, his heirs would still seek out this shop for contamination, but in this case, only an air fill was given.
This means that he may be contaminating the tank, which could become a problem when the tank owner goes to dump in the O2,
Sort of, but this has nothing to do with topping up He mixes. It only has to do with those that also use their cylinders with pure O2. Since the shop hasn't cared to date about this possibility, why worry about the trimix?
In any case, if your gas is so bad that it can cause a spontaneous fire when introduced to pure O2, I don't want to be breathing that ***** in the first place!
Isn't trimix made with O2?
Terry
If these guys were certified to dive with mix then they should be smart enough to know that filling their tanks with J grade air will render them "unclean" and unfit for O2.