Soakedlontra
Contributor
I took my nitrox and AOW courses this weekend and did the pool portion at GT. Although I do not want to jump on the bandwagon, because I am not Fully converted yet, I loved the BP&W I swam with. I was not ideally setup for me since it was my Instructors setup, but let me just say that as a new diver who is used to jacket style BCs, and the roll you can get, this had no roll, and I was able to control my bouyancy completely different than using the Jacket style BC.
I still have a few things I need to loook into as far as what is best for me as a setup but am definitely leaning towards the BP&W setup. I will still be testing stuff out.
After about 30 dives with jacket style BCDs and borrowed BP/Ws there was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to get my own BP/W . I haven't regretted it yet.