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Ian- First off, I don't think that anybody in their right mind should consider stages "dumpable weight". Who is your instructor, anyway? This I would like to know, because whoever it is is teaching you some real fucked up bullshit. Second, the AL40 is the perfect stage for ocean diving, it is near neutral full to empty, it rides up and out of the way when rigged DIR. You don't even know they are there. There are some dives where an AL80 would be useful but then you would not have made the "stages as dumpable weight" statement if you were doing that sort of diving. So far I have seen 3 of our group switch from steel 45's to AL40's. They had to take financial beatings to do this as nobody who is "in the know" wants to buy these tanks from them. I have a steel 72 O2 bottle which I hook to my hang line as an emergency backup, but I don't drag it around underwater. So get steel and learn the hard way or save some money and perhaps your life and get the right equipment to start with. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/ > From: "Ian Puleston" <DiverIan@sc*.co*> > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:14:17 -0800 > To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > Subject: Steel stages with drysuit? > > Hi, > > Can anyone answer a question for a newcomer (me). I've heard that steel > stages are frowned on because of their weight. However, for drysuit diving, > where we have to carry extra weight anyway, I can't see any obvious > disadvantage to them over AL stages. What's the thinking? > > Actually, thinking about it, a heavy steel stage bottle seems like a > conveniently located item of dumpable weight which is not going to get > dropped accidentally (since if you're resorting to dumping weights you're > not going to be making stops on the way up!). > > Ian > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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