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Scuba diving is fun, but if you don’t know enough about the vast array of safety equipment required to keep scuba diving a safe discipline, you could end up in deep trouble, (if you’ll excuse the pun).
Steel Tanks
Steel scuba tanks have great buoyancy and they hold a ton of air. The neg buoyancy is fantastic and they don’t float at the end of a dive. This lets you eliminate weights. For example, I was able to take out 5 lbs of weight from my BCD and I took my 2 108s out the other day and made four dives off of them. If you purchase your steel scuba tank somewhere like Scuba.com you can even get the scuba tank, the boot, and Pro Valve in a package (the boot is a black plastic boot that holds the tanks up). You can get these scuba diving cylinders in a variety of shapes and sizes, and as a big plus, they’re easy to assemble.
Compared to the high pressure scuba tanks, the low pressure scuba tanks are usually a bit heavier and slightly larger in diameter, and are excellent for a high capacity of air at low pressures.
High pressure diving tanks hold more air at a higher pressure and are about the same size as most aluminum dive tanks.
If you take good care of it, a steel scuba cylinder can last you for decades.
Aluminium Tanks
The most common scuba diving tanks in the world, Aluminum scuba tanks are cost efficient, long lasting, lighter than steel tanks, and are easy to carry, wear, dive with, and get filled. You can literally find aluminum scuba tanks at almost every dive resort or operation around the world.
Due to their lighter physical weight, aluminum tanks must be counter-weighted with approx. 4 pounds to keep them from floating near the end of a dive (although the Compact Neutral scuba tanks can avoid that problem because they have a thicker wall with more metal, making them slightly heavier so they do not float at the end of the dive like standard aluminum scuba tanks.)
For any diver that dives below 40 to 60 ft, an aluminum scuba tanks is an absolute must have… I already had to use it once when a dive partner had a leak in his equipment and was out of air at 108ft. They’re perfect to come up from 100+ ft including a safety stop.
Aluminum Compact tanks are also perfect fit for 3 mil suits – having used heavy and neutral steel, I find the lighter tanks easier to balance bouyancy for warm water dives.
Knowing what scuba tanks options are available to you is a good start, but you should also have a thorough understanding of how to use your scuba diving gear in both ideal and less than ideal conditions.
Always be very careful when choosing your gear and equipment as many dive shops are more likely to sell you equipment that will make them the most money, not necessarily the what is best for you.
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