king_of_battle
Contributor
Not to beat a dead horse but I think @macado hit the nail on the head. Diver's up here just don't have the density and aren't centralized in one location to make a fill center work. I work in Cambridge and even with a couple dive shops in the area I went the same route as Macado and bought my own compressor because getting across town takes forever... and the Boston metro isnt that big. When Northeast Scuba closed almost 2 years ago one of Tom's friends bought all the equipment to open a fill station in Tewksbury planning to call it 'Night Air Scuba' (maybe this is you?). To my knowledge it never got off the ground - probably because fills are such a loss leader without anything to sell all you're doing is subsidizing everyone else until you go broke. Hell the way Wayne tells it at Amigos the only reason he was able to get up and running was through extraordinary support of lots of friends to make it happen - he couldn't have built it up or subsidized it on his own.
TL;DR - we don't have the concentration of divers to support it up here - you'd go broke.
TL;DR - we don't have the concentration of divers to support it up here - you'd go broke.