cool_hardware52
Contributor
I am virtually certain that when I decide to make the switch, I will go with DSS. But just as I avoid trust me dives, I try to avoid trust me equipment purchases.
I want to understand why one wing and one back plate would represent a compromise for what I had thought was fairly mundane recreational diving. (I am starting to gather that answer.)
I want to understand the tradeoffs between a horseshoe and donut shaped wing (it had escaped me that horseshoe/donut was what the difference was between the Torus and the LCC).
I want to understand weighting issues.
I want to better understand the advantages of a hogarthian rig (as best I can without actually experiencing it).
I want to decide to what extent I want to become a purist. (Having switched from Catholicism to Atheism, a new religion might be fulfilling.)
Most of my questions probably strike the habitué in this forum as brainless, but that which is presumed obvious here can be quite unexpected to a guy who has only known a vest BC for 23 years.
I probably should have started asking my questions in the hogarthian forum, rather than here. I ended up in the DSS forum because of the enthusiasm on this board for DSS products.
I can help you with most of that list. It is next to impossible, in my experience, to answer such a long and varied list of questions via PM's, Emails, or serial posts.
Each question is a point on a "decision tree" and it's best to start at the beginning and not 3/4's of way out one branch. To spend pages and pages and pages working back from some set of mis perceptions to a point where the decisions can be made in a rational order is just not feasible.
This done much more effectively, and efficiently via a phone conversation.
You are welcome to call me at 626-799-5078. Should require about 15-20 minutes. I should be around most of today.
Tobin