How much does a diving oxygen tank cost?

Estimated Cost to Fill a Scuba Cylinder

Gas Type Capacity Price
Nitrox Up to 100 cu ft $7 to $27
Nitrox Up to 120 cu ft $10 to $32
Helium 1 cu ft $3
Oxygen 1 cu ft $0.40

How much does it cost to refill a dive tank?

Did you know that there are many different grades of breathing air?

Standard Air SCUBA Cylinders Price
Standard Air Fill (Up To 3500 psi) $8.00
Tanks-A-Lot Fill Card (10 Air Fills*) $50.00
Visual Inspection (VIP/VCI) $20.00
Visual Inspection O2 Clean $25.00

Can you fill scuba tanks with an air compressor?

Scuba tanks typically need to be filled at very high pressure (about 3,000 psi). Using a regular air compressor would only be able to provide a fraction of the air that scuba compressors can. Secondly, the scuba compressors have filters that are designed to purify the air that goes through them and fills the tank.

How long does a dive bottle last?

But how long a scuba tank lasts also directly depends on the depth at which it’s used. Based on personal experience, an average open water certified diver using a standard aluminum 80-cubic-foot tank on a 40-foot dive will be able to stay down for about 45 minutes before surfacing with a safe reserve of air.

Are scuba tanks pure oxygen?

Recreational scuba tanks are filled with compressed, purified air. This air contains about 20.9% oxygen. Several risks are associated with the use of pure oxygen in diving.

How much are old scuba tanks worth?

Scrap metal value of scuba tanks: At current rates, scrap aluminum is worth about $0.75 per lb. So the current minimum value of an aluminum scuba tank (without the tank valve) is around $23. A standard steel 80 cu/ft tank weighs about 35 lbs empty. At current rates, scrap steel is worth about $0.17 per lb.

Can a scuba tank explode?

Exploding scuba tanks are rare and devastating events. But in cases such as the 1981 blast that cost a Lakeland man his legs, the cause of the explosions appeared to be catastrophic failure of the pressurized metal tanks — not the gases inside the tanks.

What happens if you shoot a scuba tank?

Simple physics tells us that anything under pressure has the potential to explode. A properly-filled standard tank has a pressure of 3000 psi. That pressure has the potential explosive energy of about 300 grams of TNT, or that of a hand grenade or two, which can be quite deadly.

How much psi should a dive tank have?

A scuba tank is filled with compressed air. The average sized scuba tanks holds about 80 cubic feet of air at 3,000 psi. For comparison purposes, at sea level 80 cubic feet of air is usually described as being the size of a telephone booth. It will weigh about 6.5 pounds.