You mean Huish (Hollis) and Aqua Lung (Apeks) BP/W packages for $750+?Also companies like Apeks, Hollis, and others do offer BP/W setups.
The question was how are you going to compete with the DGX package which is $400.
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You mean Huish (Hollis) and Aqua Lung (Apeks) BP/W packages for $750+?Also companies like Apeks, Hollis, and others do offer BP/W setups.
I don't get the rec versus tec thing when it comes to backplates. Given the amount of lead required for most divers for diving in 7 mils or dry suits, it is nice to take 6 lbs (BP + STA) off one's back. Some, as @RobPNW has mentioned, get 10 lb BPs (or others double them up). I need 26 lbs with a single HP100. It is nice to reduce the amount of lead that I need to 20 lbs. That's just one of the benefits of BP in my opinion, a big one for cold water divers. The fact that I also dive in warm water with a SS BP + STA and no additional lead in my 5 mil isn't a big deal. It is a convience and a bit of luck (in terms of all I need and trim.In the PNW Seattle area there is a much bigger tech scene which is all but nonexistant here in little old Norcal. It’s not even Monterey which has a tech scene, but not here. So all sales will be to recreational single tank divers. It’s going to take finesse and patience.
Because the industry leaders (PADI, Scubapro, Huish, Mares/SSI, Aqualung) don't want change and they exert a huge amount of control over the information that gets out there.Change is just so hard in scuba for whatever reason.
Her Shearwater Peregrine from her sister hadn't arrived yet so she was using an Oceanic ProPlus 4...she doesn't dive with this set up like that anymore!It's kind of funny to see someone with that reg setup and a console on a retractor.
You and I know that BP/W can be used in both rec and tech, but unfortunately many dive shops are still stuck in 1999.I don't get the rec versus tec thing when it comes to backplates. Given the amount of lead required for most divers for diving in 7 mils or dry suits, it is nice to take 6 lbs (BP + STA) off one's back. Some, as @RobPNW has mentioned, get 10 lb BPs (or others double them up). I need 26 lbs with a single HP100. It is nice to reduce the amount of lead that I need to 20 lbs. That's just one of the benefits of BP in my opinion, a big one for cold water divers. The fact that I also dive in warm water with a SS BP + STA and no additional lead in my 5 mil isn't a big deal. It is a convience and a bit of luck (in terms of all I need and trim.
Unfortunately, most shops don't teach trim in open water. If they did, they may be more receptive to BP/W. Or maybe not. Change is just so hard in scuba for whatever reason.
That’s true and that has a lot to do with it.Those other sports are dominated by young people. Scuba is dominated by oldies, not sure about the demographics of divers getting OW training, however?
Truth!unfortunately many dive shops are still stuck in 1999.