Jake, yeah maybe your right but I was sending that with some sarcasim but also as a new diver and newer person to this board this is alot of the time what some of the people sound like here and on dive sites and they may not realize it...
I had a incident where a GUE guy was kinda laughing at me and telling me I didnt know what I was talking about and that a BP/W IS better then a BCD... Well that is great that he felt that way, but on this particular day I had already tried one in the past, and I was a few dives in and didnt like it as it was just another new thing and I was having a hard enough time jsut trying to remeber how to put my gear together still so i dont go out and kill myself because i didnt tighten up this or that, or forget my proper weighting and get stuck floating at the top (COUGH COUGH) and so forth. I am happy he had his opinion but you know what they say opinions are like assholes, everyone has em and they all stink unless its yours lol.
In retrospec I am now looking to finally switch over to a BP/W, why? Not cuz I think its better then a BCD or some other form of device, but in my opinion its the proper gear for me in my view for the type of diving I am going to be wanting to do in the future (cave/tech/wreck).
And spatman sometimes
is all you can hear when higher and more mightier diver
is talking about comsumption rate, Cf's, margins of saftey, buoyancy characteristics, dive profiles, and all the PST< LDS< CF< BP/W< and other abreviations people use...
I still dont know what the hell people are talking about half the time when they speak "diver" on this board or in person sometimes. Not to mention the forum terms people use who have frequented these boards for a large portion of time. I just figured out what OP meant the other day haha..
Sometimes as a new diver I just want to get peoples opinions and the reasons why "they" choose to go with what peice of equiptment they use and thats all I need to hear, preferably in english :queenliz: . As I mentioned earlier in this post, that is not how it always seems when the diver gods speak and your a new diver looking for information...
I hope when I become a god of the dive sites i remember what it was like to be a scubnewb so i dont find myself doing the same thing...
Anyhow time to go take my medicine...
Oh and OP (Original Poster) I do hope my first post of my experience and reason I bought 2 AL 80's helped... I will say i am going to go to the 100's now that money isnt so tight in case I didnt mention so earlier...
Nwbrewer wrote:Just some friendly advice from someone who isnt all hung up on the YOU MUST HAVE THIS CUZ I DO AND THIS IS WHAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS attitude...
I don't think this is really fair to the above posters. I saw a lot of people with very valid reasons for recommending steel tanks. If your budget is super tight, grab some 80's and go diving, that's what i first started with, but I very rapidly discovered that there were good reasons why people here use steel tanks primarily.
As for SM diving al80's, while using super light tanks is fun, adding 10LBS of lead when going from a single 119 to double al80's kind of sucks.... I want some HP 100's.
To the OP, try a few different kinds of tanks and see what works for you. If you can make it up to MMM or something I'll loan you my 119 to try out.
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do."
-Confucius