eelnoraa
Contributor
It's already been said, but I'll reiterate -- the big thing about having your own tanks is freedom and convenience. And nothing in this sport makes financial sense so if having the tanks comes close to your cost to rent, it's well worth it. Used tanks are a very reasonable purchase, as well, and like cars, tanks seem to lose about half their value when they leave the dive shop the first time . . .
Totally agree. No purchase make financial sense unless you have special need that rental stuff won't satisfied, but then it is not just based on financial sense.
I don't know about your locaiton. Here where I live, I can get tank rental, AL80, for $6/day or $10 per week. Air fill range from $3 to $5 (different shop) depends on how quickly you want it done. So cost of the AL80 useage is onlyu $3/day. And no need to worry about inpection, hydro test ... all the maintainance stuff. As for the convinient arguement, I am not buying it yet. Unless you can do air fill at home, you still need to stop by LDS, so may as well rent the tank too. The only reason that makes logical sense is the performance of rental stuff is not up to the diver's standard.