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Daner:
Everyone who got into diving to save money, raise your right fin.
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Everyone who got into diving to save money, raise your right fin.
If you need savings to justify buying tanks, here goes:
Renting tanks from a dive shop often means two trips, one to pickup, and one to return. If you dive 30 times a year and the dive shop is 20 miles away, That's 1200 miles of extra driving. That's like going to Florida and back for some of you guys.
Tanks rent for about five dollars more than an air fill.
Also... a tank has the highest resale of any diving item. Don't abuse it, and you can sell it for good money in 10-15 years. Would anyone pay much for a 10 year old wetsuit or BC?
If you want to show your wife that you are thrifty and don't throw money around, buy a couple of tanks.
Renting tanks from a dive shop often means two trips, one to pickup, and one to return. If you dive 30 times a year and the dive shop is 20 miles away, That's 1200 miles of extra driving. That's like going to Florida and back for some of you guys.
Tanks rent for about five dollars more than an air fill.
Also... a tank has the highest resale of any diving item. Don't abuse it, and you can sell it for good money in 10-15 years. Would anyone pay much for a 10 year old wetsuit or BC?
If you want to show your wife that you are thrifty and don't throw money around, buy a couple of tanks.
Rainer
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I'm lucky enough to also use an LDS that offers free (hyper-filtered) air. Makes owning your own cylinders an even better deal.
Aside from the convenience factors (which are worth quite a bit in and of themselves), there's the fact that steel tanks are often hard to rent reliably, so if you want the superior buoyancy characteristics, you'll want to dive.Daner:
And then there's the little fact that once you own your own gear, including tanks, and can literally go dive at the drop of a hat (assuming you live in an area where you can do so... if you have to fly to dive, then there's no point), you could very well find that 20-35 dives a year turns into 40-70 dives per year. Or more.
Convenience. It's huge.
Rainer
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Yeah, CD hits this one on the head. The BEST part of owning your own cylinders is that you're not a slave to dive shop hours. You can pretty much dive whenever. I *hated* having to return cylinders after renting them. Now i can swing by my shop for fills on my own schedule. For me, it meant I started doing a lot more diving.
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