Second guessing my BC choice (Hydros Pro)

[divad]

I don't use them and not suggesting that people use them (or not use them), I was merely questioning why some folks think they are not safe.

Deaths.

 

[Nemrod]

OMG plastic buckles, we are all gonna die. I don't get the worry from plastic buckles. I have about 4000 dives mostly on trips with groups of 10 or more so say 40,000 person-dive experiences. Not a single broken plastic buckle yet. Most US military gear now has only plastic buckles. Same arguments for Carabiners, many divers hate them, climbers use them to keep from dying.
Bill

Climbing and diving occur in somewhat dfferent environments where in diving they might pose an entanglement risk. If a SEAL team needs to scale a cliff after a swim from a submarine deployment I imagine they would find good use for a climbing carabiner. But I would not attach the carabiner to a harness holding me up with plastic snap lock buckles because I might very well die.

Plastic buckles, yes, they do break. But they also represent for minimalist divers unnecessary complication and failure points. And all that aside, they are not needed for a Hog harness that is fitted to the individual diver vs a few sizes that must fit everybody off the shelf.

I doubt you die but you might be finishing the days dives with a zip tie completing the closure. If I had a Hydros, and I do sort of like them, I would have to take some scissors to all the bits and see if I could graft on a one piece plain harness.

I had a size S AL Zuma (when my wife went to a BP/wing) stripped down to install on a plate for me but then there was a WTB for one so I reluctantly put it back together and sold it off to a happy new owner. It was about to make a really nifty BP/wing .

 

[BoltSnap]

Deaths.

How so?

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

I'll never forget the look on this guy's face when the person next to him dropped his kit down hard and the.cylinder crossed that guy's waist buckle.

Now the boat had an extra BCD that was loaned, but that guy was still pissed. The careless guy was a jerk who didn't even apologize.

 

[MainSail1865]

I am selling mine for a BPW setup. I used my Hydros pro as a DM in the Caribbean and dont have any complaints about it specifically. I do believe that Scubapro is like the Apple (i enjoy my iPhone) of the dive industry with everything being expensive as hell for a name and the inability to get parts to service my own regs. The more I get into sidemount and tech the more I want to distance myself from Scubapro.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

I am selling mine for a BPW setup. I used my Hydros pro as a DM in the Caribbean and dont have any complaints about it specifically. I do believe that Scubapro is like the Apple (i enjoy my iPhone) of the dive industry with everything being expensive as hell for a name and the inability to get parts to service my own regs. The more I get into sidemount and tech the more I want to distance myself from Scubapro.

Apples and scubapro need to be expensive as hell otherwise nobody would believe they are the best.
It all circles back to the phrase “you get what you pay for”, which is a strategy. Whether it’s true or not is another thing.
I have an Apple and I own Scubapro, but I don’t necessarily believe they are the “ best”, I just don’t know what else to get. I was into Apple computers before they were cool, and I have an addiction to old Scubapro all metal 109’s and MK5’s, which in my opinion actually were some of the best. What can I say?

 

[Jcp2]

Apples and scubapro need to be expensive as hell otherwise nobody would believe they are the best.
It all circles back to the phrase “you get what you pay for”, which is a strategy. Whether it’s true or not is another thing.
I have an Apple and I own Scubapro, but I don’t necessarily believe they are the “ best”, I just don’t know what else to get. I was into Apple computers before they were cool, and I have an addiction to old Scubapro all metal 109’s and MK5’s, which in my opinion actually were some of the best. What can I say?

Style. It can be important.

 

[Luca Brasi]

I think Scubapro does an amazing job of marketing their equipment! Dive master lent me his backup scubapro fins, the expensive model . I thought they were terrible! I understand now the reason he wasn’t using them

 

[GDHLEWIS]

I was lucky enough in the last 3 months of being able to try the Hydros Pro and a BP/W when my old jacket was on its last legs. I ended up on the xdeep Zen BP/W. For some reasons I just found the Hydros too flappy (you will have to excuse my technical speak lol).
BP/W just felt more solid in water. But as you already have the Hydros with so few dives your better just mastering that, unless you can get a good price for it. I do like the BP/W customization side of things, only doing rec stuff at the moment, but will go doubles eventually. Just my 2 cents

 

[jrouss28]

The air bladder can taco up and fill unevenly which makes me 'roll' to one side or the other..not dramatically like a barrel roll, haha, but harder to stay level.

This happens to me as well in my Hydros X.