Found out my bailout bottle was 15 years past hydro test

I was checking gear before a job in the Gulf and pulled the logs on my emergency bailout bottle. Turns out the last hydro test stamp showed 2009, nobody had caught it in all those yearly inspections. How often do you guys actually verify those stamps versus trusting the shop sticker?

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mark61126d ago

Man that is scary stuff right there. I heard a story from a guy on another forum about a similar thing where the shop stickers kept getting renewed but nobody ever actually looked at the stamp on the tank itself. From what I understand the stamps are the real proof, the sticker just means somebody glanced at it and signed off. Honestly it sounds like your yearly inspections were just pencil whipping if a 15 year gap slipped through that many times. I always wipe the paint off and read the stamp myself now after hearing that, takes two minutes and saves you from becoming a statistic.

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