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I always analyze, at least once, including air & 100% O2
I usually analyze but not every time even though I know I should
Sometimes my buddy will do it but one of us does it.
If it's air I don't bother
If it's banked EANx I don't bother
If it's 100% O2 I don't bother
Only once I have gotten something I didn't want
More than once I have gotten something I didn't want
I never analyze, breathing a mystery gas keeps the dive interesting
This is a stupid poll
Do you analyze?
No shop names please.
It's bad luck to be superstitious.
Doh!
I analyze -- although sometimes I only remember AFTER I have carried my tanks down to the water when I go to set my computer. sonofa*****!
~Jeff
My wife and I dive a lot together and even though one of us may be hooking up the analyzer, we always eyeball the readout for out own tanks. We usually even eyeball each other's readout. My wife is also the one who programs our computers (while I lug tanks to the water...something wrong with that...), but I still verify that she set the right numbers. Not that it really matters because we've either cut tables for new locations or already have a profile for the caves we've been to. I just don't want to have to listen to my computer beeping the whole time because the nitrox percentage was accidently set at 52 instead of 32 and now it thinks I'm violated MOD (those numbers on the He are way too small).
Rob Neto
Chipola Divers, LLC
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I'm a lot more casual about this than I should be. Thanks for the reminder that being casual is a bad idea...
Andrew Ainslie
Almost extinct cave diver
Good Poll
In the NE we analyze when we pickup fills at the shop. I was shocked @ how things worked in cave country. I ordered an O2-He analyzer after my 10 min blending class @ the roadside 24-hour self-service fill station.
Russel
my son and I got to the site and realized we had forgotten to analyze. I went and bought a hand held before I would dive. (I had wanted one anyway, so it was a good excuse to - though I wish I had not paid retail!)
I may bend a rule here or there but I never bend this one. I always analyze everything.
With my trimix analyzer out for repair (He sensor...OUCH$) on a recent trip, I borrowed my buddy's analyzer to find something in one of my rebreather cylinders that I didn't expect because they were relatively new cylinders (but never used). It wouldn't have killed me that day but it reinforced the reason why I analyze. I've read enough of the stories in the accident forums as well to not be complacent on this one at all.
Another one...
During my RB training dives, I asked to borrow an analyzer at a popular cavern training location that supplies gas. The man behind the counter turned to give me the look of complete amazement. He said, "...for air???" I said, "yes".
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
do you analyze
twice with two different analyzers
I've been lazy before from shops I trust. Here in Orlando I ALWAYS do it, but in cave country, I think I've gotten complacent and lazy because frankly I trust the shops, this thread kinda makes me re-evaluate things, I guess even the best of shops have people who make mistakes.
My life to me and my family is too important to mess up. I would recommend reading some of the IUCRR reports regarding toxing and death. Not analyzing is like playing russian roulette with an advanced dive.
a.k.a. Florida Cave Diver
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