trymixdiver
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Pity we all picked an expesive hobby. i can remember when i finished OW and i could get all my basic scuba gear for $1000. Now of course just a nice set of doubles run a grand.
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There is probably more "official" misinformation floating around out on the net about tanks and their properties than about just about anything.Originally posted by VTWarrenG
Is there a big table somewhere that will help me make sense of all this madness??
You can safely ignore expansion completely. Have you ever seen the size of the burette used during a hydro test? And those cylinders are going to 5/3rds (3/2ves for PST HPs) of their working pressure!Originally posted by Rick Murchison
When you're talking buoyancy, this difference in physical weight can be offset just a tad by expansion (and therefore increased displacement) of the tank...
Aw, hell, yew caught me! I wuz thinkin' mercury!Originally posted by devjr
The specific gravity of lead is 11.3 which means water is about 1/11 as heavy as lead.