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  • I always analyze, at least once, including air & 100% O2

    86 60.14%
  • I usually analyze but not every time even though I know I should

    27 18.88%
  • Sometimes my buddy will do it but one of us does it.

    14 9.79%
  • If it's air I don't bother

    25 17.48%
  • If it's banked EANx I don't bother

    4 2.80%
  • If it's 100% O2 I don't bother

    13 9.09%
  • Only once I have gotten something I didn't want

    7 4.90%
  • More than once I have gotten something I didn't want

    15 10.49%
  • I never analyze, breathing a mystery gas keeps the dive interesting

    1 0.70%
  • This is a stupid poll

    4 2.80%
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  1. #1
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    Default Do you analyze?

    No shop names please.

    It's bad luck to be superstitious.

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    Talking 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


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    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
    Check out my new book - Sidemount Diving - An Almost Comprehensive Guide
    "Survival depends on being able to suppress anxiety and replace it with calm, clear, quick and correct reasoning..." -Sheck Exley

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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

  5. #5

    Default 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

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    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!)



 

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