Posted by MHK on March 23, 2001 at 09:51:52:
In Reply to: Question strikes me as extremely strange... posted by R Bear on March 23, 2001 at 08:55:36:
Posted by R Bear on March 23, 2001 at 08:55:36:
This last thing is as much a reflection on me as it is on you. The question strikes me as odd because around here the boats don't have compressors. We always bring all our own gas so this question never would have occured to me.
Ron,
In SoCal the majority of the sites are anywhere from 2 hours away to up to 7 hours away. In some cases we board the boat the evening before, we sleep on the boat and wake up at the dive site. We try to do 4 dives a day and it simply isn't feasible not to have a compressor on the boat..
If everyone has to bring 4 tanks with up to 30 divers we'd have 120 tanks on the boat...
A compressor is the only option..
Later