I can't decide!

[cmalinowski]

I was always told to not dive steel tanks wet. Swimming to the surface with 15-20 pounds of non-ditchable weight would be beastly if my BC ruptured. And then swimming them into shore too...

If you're a fat b@st@rd like me, you still need to add weight. When diving steel, I dive with 11 extra lbs in saltwater (5lbs in fresh). It's ditchable.

Alright, maybe I'm not that fat... it's the 3mm full suit that adds the pos boyancy.

 

[PerroneFord]

Well,

I'm a big guy. 6'0 240, and no, I'm not built like Mike Tyson. Soooo, I hear ya on the added weights. But a great proportion of my diving will be cold springs (they're free and I'm cheap) so I am thinking about the weight of a set of E7 doubles, steel backplate, etc. in freshwater.. and trying to swim that out on the surface.

I wonder what the SAC rate would be for THAT dive!

You're in a 3mm suit? Heck, I'm lookin at the Pinnacle Semi-Dry 7/8! I guess I just a more sensitive man...

 

[jetfixer]

For a few extra bucks, look into the E7-100. Worth it IMHO.