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Is an 80 cuft tank enough air to safely go beyond 80'? My answer is yes but not safely. Please share your opinion.
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Is an 80 cuft tank enough air to safely go beyond 80'? My answer is yes but not safely. Please share your opinion.
You can go quite deep on an AL80 assuming ...
- you have a reasonably good air consumption rate
- you aren't planning to share any of it with your dive buddy if he or she needs it
- nothing goes wrong
If you are of a mindset to maintain a reasonable reserve for any emergencies ... yours or your buddy's ... then a prudent thing to do would be to keep your depth to a level where you would have sufficient reserves to deal with them.
If you truly want to go deeper, a larger cylinder is a better idea.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Brett Gilliam went to 470+ and back on an 80....
I know lots of people who have gone deeper than 100 feet on AL80's.
Most of them made it back ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)