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echo: askacop
to: BARBARA MCNAY
from: RICH GRIEBEL
date: 1998-05-01 05:21:00
subject: Legality of Commandeering

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->  >-> This brings to mind something I saw up in that area (don't know 
-> what  >-> but I'd guess it was in New Jersey, Delaware, or Maryland) 
-> about 30 y
->  >-> ago:  On the approach to a tunnel, there were signs saying that 
-> vehic  >-> with, or pulling trailers with, gas bottles were not to 
-> use the tunne  >-> were instead to use an open-air route.  The driver 
-> of the car I was i  >-> failed to acknowledge these signs, and we 
-> were pulled over and reques  >-> take that other route.  Might some 
-> tunnels have less than optimum att  > -  > I've heard that some 
-> bottles of compressed gas can and  > will explode  > under the low 
-> pressures of going under the water, i've  > also heard it  > wont. 
-> But i dont take channses and just leave my  > bottles, at home, this  
-> > goes for Propane, Nitrise Oxide, and compressed oxygen  > for scuba 
-> tanks.
-> I don't even remember whether this tunnel was underwater, but in any 
-> case, there are lots of folks who use oxygen for medical reasons.
Barb,
I wouldn't worry about it, compressed gas cylinders don't explode
under water.  If so divers would be dying left and right, and submarines
would be exploding all over the world.
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