Carbon Monoxide Monitoring Solutions

Hi,

 

There have been a few CO diving related incidents reported in recent months.  I'm interested to know the following:-

  1. What kind of precautions do you/have you used to avoid CO contamination?  (Compressor monitors, gas tubes, panel monitors, catalysts etc)
  2. What do you think the industry attitude is to the dangers of CO?
  3. What are your thoughts?

Thanks again in advance for the feedback.

 

Regards,

Simon

Analox

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Permalink Reply by PAISTE on October 7, 2011 at 12:05pm
Compressors are tested every six months, use a Drager system.  A good seasoned diver will know the early symptoms and alert the supervisor.  A good crew will be watching the wind and intake.  We had a problem not long ago with near by ships and their exhaust.  Just shut down the compressor, go to HP air, bleed down the volume tank, when the problem goes away, start up the compressor and go back to normal ops.  When working in a hazardous area, use HP air only.
Permalink Reply by Fred C. Johnson on October 10, 2011 at 8:21am

Made a jump into 200fsw on air and the volume tanks were full of carbon monoxide damn near died.

After that all panels were set up with inline monitors.

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