Exploding scuba tank kills two tourists

[greenturtle]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1225928664991


AN exploding scuba diving tank killed two Polish tourists and seriously injured two others overnight on a Croatian island, officials said.
The first victim on the southern island of Vis was a 48-year-old Polish woman who died on the spot, a police spokeswoman said.

"The diving tank exploded while it was being unloaded from a boat on the coast in the port of Komiza," the transport and sea ministry said.

The cause of the blast was most likely a valve that popped out, it said.

Three other injured tourists - two men and a woman - were immediately transported to a hospital in the coastal town of Split on the mainland.

One of them, a 43-year-old man who sustained a head injury, died in the hospital overnight, its surgical department said.

The victims were in a group of 12 Polish tourists who arrived in Komiza to go scuba diving, the ministry said.

Croatia, which has a population of 4.4 million, attracts more than 10 million tourists each year, who mainly visit the country's Adriatic coast.

[The Publisher]

That is horrible...I know aluminum tanks of a certain era needed eddy current testing of the neck of the cylinder for the valve threads to look for cracking....