sarysa
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So I just moved here about a month ago, and I feel like a foreigner with my gear...heh. I live about 30mi north of Tampa. Most of my tanks are double HP steel which is silly for local ocean diving, but that's not where I intend to use them. But I guess it should be no surprise that the shops around the NPR coast don't really have much experience with them. Two of my three sets were out of vis when I got here and I found a place that'd be willing to do the vis but they required oxygen due to their method of blending. They say all the local shops are the same in this regard.
They also had no clue how to fill the set. I'm also getting the impression that disassembly/assembly of the doubles was a learning/refresher experience for them, which means I'll probably have to have the new LDS check their work.
I don't remember what method my old LDS used, but they certainly didn't require O2 cleaning every vis.
Anyway, I'm a bit at a loss here. Being at the southern tip of cave country and near a major metropolitan area, there has to be a relatively close (<=25mi) dive shop that's used to dealing with doubles and has premixes, or other methods that don't require O2 cleaning for back gas tanks. I just have no idea where it is...
They also had no clue how to fill the set. I'm also getting the impression that disassembly/assembly of the doubles was a learning/refresher experience for them, which means I'll probably have to have the new LDS check their work.
I don't remember what method my old LDS used, but they certainly didn't require O2 cleaning every vis.
Anyway, I'm a bit at a loss here. Being at the southern tip of cave country and near a major metropolitan area, there has to be a relatively close (<=25mi) dive shop that's used to dealing with doubles and has premixes, or other methods that don't require O2 cleaning for back gas tanks. I just have no idea where it is...
