Pure Oxygen Scuba Tanks

To understand why you need to go into some detail your lungs are basically a long series of tubes that branch out from your nose and mouth from trachea to bronchi to bronchioles and end in little thin walled air sacs called alveoli.

Pure oxygen scuba tanks.

This air contains about 20 9 oxygen. Recreational scuba tanks are filled with compressed purified air. Scuba air tank 1l mini oxygen cylinder underwater respirator scuba dive cylinder scuba diving equipment with 15 20 minutes capability underwater breathing device scuba accessories 1. These mixes are always blended into oxygen serviced cylinders.

These shops mix into oxygen serviced cascade cylinders. Sherwood aluminum 100 cf scuba diving 3300 psi dive tank 2. Price from 274. So the short answer is pure oxygen is generally bad and sometimes toxic.

Generic cylinder and valve maintenance guides rarely address the specific nature of the scuba industry especially in regards to nitrox applications. Just to be clear all the scuba tank valves sold by dive gear express incorporate oxygen compatible materials including fluorocarbon o rings and are oxygen cleaned by the factory. As a certified scuba diver i learned that breathing pressurized pure oxygen leads to oxygen toxicity which can be fatal. While oxygen compatible lubrication of the neck threads and o ring in scuba valves and cylinders is probably harmless under ideal conditions it also has no clear benefit.

Because the final mix in the cascade cylinders has an oxygen content of 40 percent or below a diver s scuba cylinder is not required to be oxygen serviced. Several risks are associated with the use of pure oxygen in diving. For deco mixes above 40 percent there is simply no choice. Aunlpb diving tanks diving oxygen tank portable 1l mini scuba.