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Tape is 25 plus postage (donation to WKPP). I do not know what Jablonski
charges for instruction, but I hope it is a lot, considering what you get, and
then considering the alternative, which is why you are asking me how not to get
the screwing that you are about to take from your current instructor.
The Genesis tanks are white elephants, another typical venal attempt by the
dive industry to extract money for nothing by creating a useless product and
pretending there is a use for it (high pressure). They have a working presuure
that is above the linear compressability of most gasses, and you do not have
the
rated volume unless you have that fill, and then you still do not. Regulators,
no matter what the rating, are more stressed at these pressures. This is silly,
as a set of aluminum 80's pumped to the same pressure have about the same gas.
The larger versions are completely inadequate in volume yet are larger than
104's. The neck is cut to 5/8 inch, instead of 3/4 , so you need special valves
and manifolds, which then will not work on a normal tank. The Sherwood valve
made for this is the single biggest peice of shit (in the not-made-by dive rite
category (( this is the only way to give other pieces of shit a fighting chance
at a ranking))) that I have ever seen. Whoever thought that one up is one dumb
sob. The tanks have the worst possible bouyancy charateristics for a stage
bottle, and as doubles require weight when you get down to near 1200 psi, which
means that you would be stuck to the roof of cave in a low-on-gas emergency.
These things also have a terrible track record for rusting.
Just think, what you have is a steel 72 with shitty metal, a 5/8 neck, a
huge
pricetag, and you can fill it to make it act like a 102, or you could by a good
steel 72 with a 3/4 neck and do the same thing, but why the hell would you do
that????????
The one thing that these tanks are number one in is dealer markup, and
that is why all of these scumbag dive instructors recommend them. If you own
these tanks, I suggest painting "I got screwed" on the back, as the way it
stands now, you might as well have a sign saying, "I am a stroke, or was
trained
by a stroke".
Avoid taking it in the pail on gear, ask us first (any WKPP member).
George M. Irvine III
DIR WKPP
1400 SE 11 ST Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316
954-493-6655 FAX 6698
Email gmiiii@in*.co*
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