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submitted: Aug 27th 2008 | by: JamesTCatrell | Total views: 1 | Word Count: 377 | |

When you look at a checklist of all the equipment that you require to scuba dive you have to say that scuba diving tanks are THE most critical. Without tanks there would be no such activity.

It is quite a complex way in which the tanks are connected into the diving suit and therefore this needs knowledge of the handling method required.

Because scuba diving involves so many different specialized dives the basics are often overlooked. The issue of safety and scuba tanks is one of these.

The Negative Influence of Television.

Television has been wrongly blamed for a number of 'bad influences' on people's behavior and if there one area where TV was a bad influence it would be on the safety issues surrounding scuba diving tanks.

This is a serious point as when you watch a television program or a movie; you will notice the scuba diving tanks pointing upwards. This is a serious no-no! The reason is that the tanks contained compressed air and, as anyone who remembers the famous scene in JAWS where Robert Shaw admonished Roy Schieder about haphazard scuba tank handling know; scuba diving tanks contain compressed air.

If tanks are not handled in the proper way they can cause damage and serious harm (look at the end result of the shark named Jaws in the film). Tanks that are stored on their end can fall over and dislodge the apparatus on top of the tank.

The end result could very well be a jet of compressed air barrelling out of the end of the tank like a bullet. This can cause a fatality should it impact on a week point of the body. The best way to store a scuba tank is to lie it down flat and to the ground and to lodge it in safely against some sort of supportive padding.

Safety is paramount when it comes to scuba diving (as is the case with many sports). The price of injury or fatality is too high.

This all adds up to one plain and simple fact that follows good practice and common sense. Anyone who is to handle compressed air tanks or scuba diving tanks needs to ensure that they have the proper qualifications to do so. If they have not then the results can be cataclysmic.

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