Buying or renting tanks?

[aquaregia]

Make sure you like diving LP95s first. I don't, but I dive them pretty often anyway just for the extra air.

Pairs of tanks are nice. I have nine mismatched tanks (from single 72s to double 95s), and arranging a two dive trip actually takes a bit of thinking, or at least changing weights in between dives. I still rent tanks for boat trips.

I originally bought tanks for night-diving convenience, but they've all ended up paying for themselves. I own a lot of 72s just because they're often about $50 after the hydro and when I was diving wet, I honestly didn't care to be diving for more than a half hour.

 

[Hostage]

I am looking at two LP 95s, I will see if I can get the same ones as it seems like a pain to switch the strap size and switch weights for different tanks. Any other good pointers would be greatly apperciated. They are in Hydro and VIP.

 

[Shftrdog]

If you are going to do local diving def. get your own tanks. The nice thing about having your own tank is that you can dive when ever you want. You are not dependent on the shop or weather. If you rent a tank and somthing comes up and you can't go diving then you still paid for that rental. If you have your own tank and somthing comes up then you just go ahead and dive another time, your not out anything. As for the 72CF, I would go for 80CF, that is the industruy standard. Good luck

 

[aquaregia]

As for the 72CF, I would go for 80CF, that is the industruy standard. Good luck

72cf is as industry standard as steel gets. And, it's a far better tank than an AL80 in every way other than capacity, and that's out the door too if you don't mind sticking an extra 200psi into them.

Two LP95s will have roughly the same weight and tank strap adjustments. It gets crappy when you start having 6.9", 7.25" and 8" tanks with empty buoyancies of -2# to +4.5#.

 

[DMDavid]

72cf is as industry standard as steel gets. And, it's a far better tank than an AL80 in every way other than capacity, and that's out the door too if you don't mind sticking an extra 200psi into them.

Please elaborate a bit further on this claim.




FB-Florida Scuba Diver

 

[aquaregia]

Sure:
* A steel72 at working pressure has 90% of the gas of an AL80, pump it to 2700psi and they're the same.
* A steel72 is 4# more negative than an AL80, so that's off the weight belt.
* A steel72 is about 5# lighter than an AL80, so with the ballast difference, there's a 9# dry weight difference
* Nobody's making a fuss about 20 year old 3AA tanks