Nitrox fills

[DRE]

Hochi,

I agree with you that if you like to display your diving accomplishments by putting a sticker on your tank that that should not be belittled. However, I cannot agree with your reasoning that the nitrox sticker is there for your safety - in my opinion it even increases potential disaster as it lulls divers into a false sense of safety. The big nitrox sticker on a tank gives you absolutely no indication as to what gas is in the tank: it might be filled with an EAN40, in which case taking it to 130ft might prove fatal for the diver in question. Without a proper contents label the big nitrox sticker is absolutely useless!
Personally, I label all my tanks all the time, even if they have air in them. If training agencies would teach proper tank identification procedures (ie based upon proper content identification rather than big flashy empty messages) there never would be an issue in the first place. We all were taught in our basic OW to check our tank pressure before we go diving, but proper content identification is not part of the process. Now I ask you, which one of these two procedures will kill you more easily?