HP 100 or 120

[Stu S.]

LP85's are probably the best overall tank if you can get decent fills. I feel like a free-diver diving with them...

Me too. We dive tomorrow and my buddy will borrow a tank. He gets a 100. The 85 is for me.

 

[livetwodive]

Went to a shop that had all the tanks and sat the AL80, HP100, HP119, and HP120 next to each other. My wife rejected the larger tanks on sight. So much for all my investigation! We rented HP100's for a dive and they were great. I did notice a bit more pressure on my lower back. I might need to adjust the height or maybe I'm just feeling the negative buoyancy of the steel tank. I figure if the AL80 has a slight negative to positive buoyancy I'm less likely to feel it on my back during the dive. The volume seemed good. It is the first time I've gotten a full 60 min on 60' profile.

If it were just me I might nibble on the 119 but I'm keeping us all in the same tanks to make things simpler. Now I just have to figure out when I can buy them...

 

[Scott L]

Went to a shop that had all the tanks and sat the AL80, HP100, HP119, and HP120 next to each other. My wife rejected the larger tanks on sight. So much for all my investigation! We rented HP100's for a dive and they were great. I did notice a bit more pressure on my lower back. I might need to adjust the height or maybe I'm just feeling the negative buoyancy of the steel tank. I figure if the AL80 has a slight negative to positive buoyancy I'm less likely to feel it on my back during the dive. The volume seemed good. It is the first time I've gotten a full 60 min on 60' profile.

If it were just me I might nibble on the 119 but I'm keeping us all in the same tanks to make things simpler. Now I just have to figure out when I can buy them...

Faber's are lighter than Worthingtons. FYI...

 

[livetwodive]

Faber's are lighter than Worthingtons. FYI...

That's good to know, I assumed they were roughly the same. Our rental 100's were not Faber white.