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Chances are your LDS required the purchase of mask, fins & snorkel to certify.
The next thing to buy would be an exposure suit, because after only a few rentals, you could buy one.
Computers come next as they also have high rental cost compared to owning. They require little in the way of upkeep, just batteries.
BC's can be cheap or expensive. One nice thing about the cheap ones is that usually they pack smaller and the right ones are streamlined. The Zegle scout is a good example. BC's don't need much service. Checking them for leaks is something you can do yourself.
To make it pay to own a regulator, you have to dive a bit more frequently as regulators need an annual service. which usually costs as much as a one week rental. My Scubapro with a free parts warranty is $56 a year.
Weights are cheap. Only needed for local diving.
Unless the plan is to do a lot of spur of the moment local diving, you probably do not need to own a tank. Tanks need periodic inspections and hydro tests and the cost of a tank rental is not much more than an air fill. Divers that have somewhere nice to dive locally might buy their own tank because they can own a larger steel tank than the standard aluminum 80 rental tanks. Taking a tank on an aircraft is prohibitively expensive.
The next thing to buy would be an exposure suit, because after only a few rentals, you could buy one.
Computers come next as they also have high rental cost compared to owning. They require little in the way of upkeep, just batteries.
BC's can be cheap or expensive. One nice thing about the cheap ones is that usually they pack smaller and the right ones are streamlined. The Zegle scout is a good example. BC's don't need much service. Checking them for leaks is something you can do yourself.
To make it pay to own a regulator, you have to dive a bit more frequently as regulators need an annual service. which usually costs as much as a one week rental. My Scubapro with a free parts warranty is $56 a year.
Weights are cheap. Only needed for local diving.
Unless the plan is to do a lot of spur of the moment local diving, you probably do not need to own a tank. Tanks need periodic inspections and hydro tests and the cost of a tank rental is not much more than an air fill. Divers that have somewhere nice to dive locally might buy their own tank because they can own a larger steel tank than the standard aluminum 80 rental tanks. Taking a tank on an aircraft is prohibitively expensive.
until she managed to get the inflator under control. Other minor problems include leaks in the first stage & second stage, free flow problems which were fixed with a quick whack at the second stage, etc.
