Can you purchase Scuba diving equipment for your own use?
Sunday, December 6th, 2009 at
1:59 pm
I was wondering if i could buy all of the Scuba Diving equipment for my own use? Do you need a permit? etc?
Yep, you could actually. You could buy just about anything to do with scuba other than a rebreather rig. The kicker is, to use any of it, you need a C card to fill a tank. All those thousands of dollars you spent on gear is pretty pointless unless you can use it with a 10 dollar air fill. No shop will fill a tank without knowing you are a certified diver. The profit simply isn’t worth the liability.That simple and a very good control measure. It’s worked for years. Greed in this case works well. It costs more to deal with litigation than to skip a C card check.
no you can just buy it for your personal use at like a supply store or online.. you dont usually need a permit just to scuba dive but some places may require one to scubad dive there but i dont think most do.. and its not like they would know you didnt have one.. scuba divings tricky though and can be dangerous so it helps to take a few classes and if you do that you can get a scuba diving license pretty quickly.. its definetly not required though
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You don’t need a permit to buy equipment, but part of the certification course is learning the equipment, it’s purpose and safe operation. There are so many brands and pieces of equipment, and you want to have the correct equipment for the type of diving you do, and equipment that fits properly, is weighted properly for your size and build, is easy for you to operate, and correct instruction in it’s use, etc.
For instance, I’m prone to bronchitis when diving, because the air in the tanks is dry. I now have a regulator that recycles the moisture from exhaling back into the air I breath, and it’s designed for cold water diving (which is what I do most). No more broncitis. Not everyone needs this, and it’s more expensive than a basic regulator.
You do need a permit to dive.
US dive shops can lose their license if they refill dive tanks for an uncertified diver.
Dive tanks have to be inspected and current to get refills.
International dive shops certified by PADI or NAUI fall under the same rules
The most important factor in diving (other than breathing) is learning the dive tables to know your dive status, safety stops, how long you can safetly stay down.
There are so many safety factors, that diving w/o certification, is dangerous in ways you can’t imagine.
And you won’t have that knowledge unless you become certified.
I also suggest that you purchase DAN insurance while diving. The cost is minimal in comparison to one stay in a decompression chamber (+$10k) and it sometimes takes 2 treatments.
Authorized, licensed, reputable dive operaters WILL ask for your certs before servicing equipment, refilling tanks, or booking a dive boat, tour, or trip. A dive master on a trip will ask to see your certs before you’re allowed to join the dive.
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NAUI certified open water diver. Own my own equipment
Yep, you could actually. You could buy just about anything to do with scuba other than a rebreather rig. The kicker is, to use any of it, you need a C card to fill a tank. All those thousands of dollars you spent on gear is pretty pointless unless you can use it with a 10 dollar air fill. No shop will fill a tank without knowing you are a certified diver. The profit simply isn’t worth the liability.That simple and a very good control measure. It’s worked for years. Greed in this case works well. It costs more to deal with litigation than to skip a C card check.
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