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Just completed my third dive, and trying to control my breathing. My boat dives are being cut short cos I'm going through a 12ltr tank in 30 min's on a 30 metre dive . Me and my buddy, who is also my girlfriend are about to buy our first kit. I'm thinking of twin 10's or a 15 ltr dumpy at 300 bar. First problem. My local dive centre can only go too 200 bar, second problem, my partner doesn't want anything bigger than a 12ltr. ( our air consumption is about the same ) so even if I have the larger tanks, I will still have leave the water at the same time as my buddy. Do I need the larger tanks at the moment, having only done three dives? And will more experiance increase the amount of dive time on the same size tank as I'm using now?
Hope I haven't waffled to much
Just completed my third dive, and trying to control my breathing. My boat dives are being cut short cos I'm going through a 12ltr tank in 30 min's on a 30 metre dive . Me and my buddy, who is also my girlfriend are about to buy our first kit. I'm thinking of twin 10's or a 15 ltr dumpy at 300 bar. First problem. My local dive centre can only go too 200 bar, second problem, my partner doesn't want anything bigger than a 12ltr. ( our air consumption is about the same ) so even if I have the larger tanks, I will still have leave the water at the same time as my buddy. Do I need the larger tanks at the moment, having only done three dives? And will more experiance increase the amount of dive time on the same size tank as I'm using now?
Hope I haven't waffled to much