Anti ScubaPro bias?

[boulderjohn]

@boulderjohn Wow! The IRS musta made a mint outta your outrageous profits!

You'll see it all if I run for PResident and have to disclose my tax returns. Oh! I forgot! Not required any more.

 

[Efka76]

Me and my wife have some Scubapro stuff: Hydros Pro BCDs, regulators MK25 Evo/A700, octopuse R195, SPGs, Mako Titanium, boots, fins Seawing Novo 2. After 2 days we will go to liveaboard in Egypt amd will try new stuff. I would not say that i am die hard Scubapro fan (my weysuit is Seac and mask made by Tusa), however, i just like their design, reviews were good and i am planning to use regukators not in warm waters only but in diving in Baltic sea, Lithuanian lakes were water temperature on the bottom is +5/6 C even in summer. Also, i got very good prices for my stuff.

 

[Takimbe]

Ive got some scubapro stuff, and my GF has a hodgepodge of stuff. We really just go for the gear that fits us best, regardless of brand...although after diving the perdix AI, I may never dive another computer ever again.

I dive the hydros BCD for rec, use the mk25 evo/g260 (with g260 octo) for both rec and PSD training (not fully certified yet), and a DGX BP/W with diveright QD harness for PSD.

My GF uses a DGX setup with deep 6 regs. I have used her regs just to try them out before and the deep 6 are just as nice as the g260s, and are a bit smaller (and cheaper) as well. We both use the Deep 6 Eddy fins, as they are way better (to us) than any other fin we have dived with. If I was just a rec diver, I would save the money and go Deep 6 for regs. I am too lazy to do my own service, so I checked with my LDS and they do service Deep 6, as long as we provide them with the service kit. I am also lucky that I live in San Diego, and the Scubapro HQ/warehouse is 10 minutes down the road, so parts can easily be found and acquired whenever my gear needs service, which it hasnt yet.

That being said, the Scubapro stuff is good. It works, the Hydros without the weight pockets feels great and 'sticks' to the suit when diving, just feels more controlled and easier to work with in general. Am I married to it though? Nope. If something fits better down the line, I can afford it, and my LDS services it, I would definitely make the switch.

 

[kelemvor]

perdix AI, I may never dive another computer ever again.

I remember those! That's what people used before the Teric, right?

 

[Takimbe]

Haha The Teric looks nice, but I am a sucker for the bigger screen on the Perdix. If I had unlimited disposable income, I would buy a teric and use it as a backup computer to my perdix...if only...

 

[kelemvor]

Haha The Teric looks nice, but I am a sucker for the bigger screen on the Perdix. If I had unlimited disposable income, I would buy a teric and use it as a backup computer to my perdix...if only...

I'd like to have the features of a teric in the form factor of a perdix. I'm betting there will eventually be a perdix 2 that brings the rest of the missing features.

 

[tbone1004]

I'd like to have the features of a teric in the form factor of a perdix. I'm betting there will eventually be a perdix 2 that brings the rest of the missing features.

which features? I'd like the haptic alarm on the Nerd2 and the Petrel 2 divecan controllers to give alarms from the rebreather, but wouldn't do much good on a standalone

 

[Joneill]

Haha The Teric looks nice, but I am a sucker for the bigger screen on the Perdix. If I had unlimited disposable income, I would buy a teric and use it as a backup computer to my perdix...if only...

That's exactly what I'm doing

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

It's hard to hate a company that produced such classics as the MK 5 and the 109/156BA.

I don’t think the hatred was there when those regs were being produced. AFAIK, those regs were the golden years for SP. After that is when they began to go downhill both in innovation and in customer relations. They got too big for their britches. The internet also really helped to expose a lot of the dirty underworld of the scuba business and how it works.
Elitist hype is really all they have left.
I have my own stories about going around and around with SP and getting screwed. I would never buy anything new from SP ever again except for maybe a pair of Jet fins or a mask if it fit.
But I still love my older SP regs - MK5/109’s and 156.

 

[Scared Silly]

I quit buying ScubaPro gear when it was acquired by Johnson Outdoors who had previously bought UWATEC. UWATEC and later Johnson Outdoors would not come clean over a defect in their computers:

UWATEC Settles Over Dive Computer: Undercurrent 05/2005

I sold my non defective UWATEC computer after that but still have some really old SP gear that is basically worthless.

Note: all of the above happened well before the shenanigans with the parts programs.