djanni
Contributor
If you had not implied that my not caring that much about about being able to have a longer safety stop (or whatever; my air consumption is pretty good and I nearly always come up to the safety stop in the yellow on an AL80) was due to some sort of shortcoming on my part it would not have come across as condescending and I would not have taken offense. The thing is, the math of $/minute of bottom time is not a universal measure of dive quality and in my case does not justify the expense, etc. of diving with an op that offers steel tanks. It's not that I cannot "handle" longer bottom times.
Peace,
I'm sorry you took it that way. Yet, I guess I can see how someone could.
The whole discussion in my mind is if someone enjoys longer dives a higher capacity tank facilitates it. It's great you like diving with al80's. I like Steel 100's, some like steel 120's while others like al63's.