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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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