It stand for "Visual Inspection Programme", and it means a dive professional taking the valve off the tank and inspecting inside to check for cracks or contamination. It is different from the hydrostatic testing that tanks are required to undergo every 5 years, in that the inspection is purely visual.
In the US and Canada this is normally done every year.
In Europe it is normally done every two and a half years.
The numbers on a scuba tank reveal 3 things. Serial no. of the tank. Type metal. and the current hydro date.
From a regulator attached to a scuba tank.
The empty weight of a 100 cubic foot steel SCUBA tank is approximately 33lbs.
Depends on the size of the tank.
Depends on the size of the tank.
I would think so, because there are two of them mixed together. Air in a scuba tank or anywhere else should be heterogeneous. A scuba tank filled with either oxygen or nitrogen would be homogeneous.
the silly answer is you can store anything in a scuba tank that you can get in it!!. BUTthe serious answer is scuba tank were designed for compressed air and nothing else... using a scuba tank for natural gas is like driving around with a bomb in your car!!, the valves and collars of the bottles are not strong enough if there was a crash
No.
its the scuba tank on the swimming guys back.
You can use a scuba tank, but that is it.
Different scuba gear types weigh different amounts. The oxygen tank is the heavy part of the scuba diving gear.
your local paintball field. Or you can purchase a scuba tank and adapter to fill the paintball tank with and every once in a while fill the scuba tank up if you live like out in the middle of nowhere