Any Equipment Advice for a short woman?

[Scuba_Jenny]

Jenny, you really should let one of our local guys fit you out with a BP/W. I've loved mine so far. (For the rest of you, Jenny and I have dived quite a bit together off of the beaches between Hollywood and LBTS, and I just bought a DR Transplate with Venture Wing in October.)

The trick re: going face down is to not overinflate the wing. If you don't blow it up like a balloon, it works just fine. And with the right adjustment, there's no pitch and roll - it's much, much more stable. I also like the fact that with a steel tank and a steel plate, you hardly need any weight at all. Even with an aluminum 80 and a 3 mm suit in salt water, I only need 8 lbs on a heavy current day.

Mark, at Fill Express, will make sure that you're set up right if you want to rent one for a day. That's what I did, then I went out and bought one the next week.

Now we just need for the air to warm up for some beach dives!

-G

Thanks buddy for actual info WHY the BP/W is a good choice. Since I have mentioned already about the face forward problem in the surf, nobody has given me a solution to that problem until now. Now, you sure you don't wanna store that thing at my house...then you won't need to carry it with you back and forth.
P.S....when we diving again?

 

[Scubaroo]

My wife is 5' nothing, and my regular backplate was too long for her torso. She tried an O-Pac (which is the same length!), and it felt much better on her, probably because it is a softpack, ie a flexible "backplate". Works well for her.