Mark T

Hi
For those who are interested, the main dive magazines (Sports Diver, Dive
and Diver) are running the same story this month about the introduction of a
new M26 thread for Nitrox/Trimix tanks. If enforced this may mean changing
all our tank valves and regs. For once the HSE was actually against this
piece of European legislation, but was out voted.
A on-line petition has been organised
Feel free to add your name or alternatively write to your MP...

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SCUBA-valves/

M.

Matthias Voss

Mark T wrote:

> Hi
> For those who are interested, the main dive magazines (Sports Diver, Dive
> and Diver) are running the same story this month about the introduction of a
> new M26 thread for Nitrox/Trimix tanks. If enforced this may mean changing
> all our tank valves and regs. For once the HSE was actually against this
> piece of European legislation, but was out voted.
> A on-line petition has been organised
> Feel free to add your name or alternatively write to your MP...
>
> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SCUBA-valves/

This legislation only applies to professional use of
bottles, afaik.
What you do in private, is up to you.

The tec community seem to pretty much ignore this BS.

Matthias

Mark T

This legislation only applies to professional use of
bottles, afaik.
What you do in private, is up to you.

The tec community seem to pretty much ignore this BS.

Matthias
>>

What you do in private differs from getting a fill from a dive shop. You
never need have a cylinder tested or cleaned if you have your own compressor
and are prepared to take the chance. Do you seriously suggest that there
will be different cylinders for the recreational and the professional
market? Any recreational scuba instructor teaching in a shop is at work,
and therefore a professional. Does he have two sets of kit for when he is
teaching and when he is diving privately?

M.

Matthias Voss

Mark T wrote:

> This legislation only applies to professional use of
> bottles, afaik.
> What you do in private, is up to you.
>
> The tec community seem to pretty much ignore this BS.
>
> Matthias
>
>
> What you do in private differs from getting a fill from a dive shop. You
> never need have a cylinder tested or cleaned if you have your own compressor
> and are prepared to take the chance. Do you seriously suggest that there
> will be different cylinders for the recreational and the professional
> market? Any recreational scuba instructor teaching in a shop is at work,
> and therefore a professional. Does he have two sets of kit for when he is
> teaching and when he is diving privately?

No. In Germany my CMAS affiliation avoids demanding the new
valve as obligatory. Oxygen clean and compatible is all it
needs.
As for private fillings, you are right. Shop monkeys rule.
Different cylinders no, what they are doing is deman
different valves. It is an idiotic phrase in some
legislative rules that threads shall be unique to the gas used.
So we really are still missing valves for hypoxic bottom mix...

Matthias

Steve Carmichael-Timson

"Matthias Voss" <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:f2ffm4$fc9$00$1@news.t-online.com...
> Mark T wrote:
>
>> This legislation only applies to professional use of
>> bottles, afaik.
>> What you do in private, is up to you.
>>
>> The tec community seem to pretty much ignore this BS.
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>> What you do in private differs from getting a fill from a dive shop. You
>> never need have a cylinder tested or cleaned if you have your own
>> compressor and are prepared to take the chance. Do you seriously suggest
>> that there will be different cylinders for the recreational and the
>> professional market? Any recreational scuba instructor teaching in a
>> shop is at work, and therefore a professional. Does he have two sets of
>> kit for when he is teaching and when he is diving privately?
>
> No. In Germany my CMAS affiliation avoids demanding the new valve as
> obligatory. Oxygen clean and compatible is all it needs.
> As for private fillings, you are right. Shop monkeys rule.
> Different cylinders no, what they are doing is deman different valves. It
> is an idiotic phrase in some legislative rules that threads shall be
> unique to the gas used.
> So we really are still missing valves for hypoxic bottom mix...
>
> Matthias
>

I thought this was cast in stone and it's going to be yet another
opportunity for the Shop Monkies to extract cash from us. Hey ho......
Glad I have my own compressor.

Steve