Do you use tank boots?
do you have tank boots?
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Most people use boots, except on doubles that I have noticed. If you dont have them on steels than your tank is gonna fall over, and as far as aluminums, most captains hate to see people get on their boat without boots
MSilvia
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I have boots on my round bottomed tanks for convenience when filling/storing. When I had flat-bottomed aluminium tanks, I had no boots because I didn't want to add even an infinitismal ammount of drag, but upon reflection I decided better to have a little bit of drag then to damage the gel-coat on the boats of friends (and captains) nice enough to take me out to dive.
Jorbar1551:
no, scubapro boots. with a zipper.
REII
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Yes, I do. They do not mark up the fiberglass on my boat as much as the aluminum does.
TOM
TOM
mikerault
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Yes, it makes the tank and BCD/tank assembly more stable.
Mike
Mike
Yep,make the pool owners happy to.
Jibeho
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Yes on my steels no on my ALs. On my steels I remove them and wash them. I put them back on when everything is dried out.
I do on my steel 120's...it's almost necessary with rounded bottoms. Most cave people don't, to prevent rust and i've seen plenty of doubles with boots. sometimes trimmed down because there banded close togeater. It's just really annoying to have to deal with Al80's with no boots.
I removed all mine when I was trying to be more DIR. Once I realized that it wasn't worth the hassle of tanks constantly falling as I geared up I put them back on. My boat owning friends also appreciate it. According to George Irvine, the reason for the no-boot rule was because too many cave divers in Florida were leaving their tanks standing on the picnic tables. He made them remove them to lower the risk of the tanks falling.
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