Well, yes, you can, if you want to offer a self-description. You apparently have no first hand knowledge of the unit to which you are referring yet you are seemingly comfortable making absurd assertions. I thought about how to respond to this. The mature, intelligent, professional approach would be to say, 'Thank you for you observations.' and then attempt to address them.
You need maturity to make mature comments, the fact you even attempted to justify the nonsense in the Transpac is enough clue into the intelligent department comment. And professional is a word used very loosely by you, your arrogant, pretentious comments on the first post already told us that. Learn to make informed comments to sustain your arguments instead of attempting insults, kid!
But, I don't feel that your comments are informed enough to merit that response.
Or simply, you just don't know how.
So, this is the best you can do - a Google search and a website photo? While I, of course, would never suggest that such an approach is 'pretty lame', I somehow suspect that others might. And, while I have not personally experienced such a situation, I have a friend who likes to say. 'I have often seen ignorance encounter something it doesn't understand, and label it nonsense because of an inability to actually understand.' I have to wonder - would a reasonable person ask, 'Does that apply here?' Apparently it does!
Your friend is a wise man, you should listen to what he has to say.
Interesting enough, what I see here is an apparent lack of understanding on how an ATS (hogarthian) system works and it's functionality, this is made very clear once you attempt to explain/justify/reason (whatever you wanna call it) the choices on the Transpac.
Here's a fun exercise, put both rigs side by side, now look at the things present on the Transpac that are not present on the ATS and ask yourself, do I need them on the ATS to make it work? Well, if none of that is needed, then why have it?
I have seen a lot of divers new to such style rig, divers used to traditional BCD, concerned about the lack of a chest strap for example, they fear the shoulder strap will slide over their shoulder and make them lose the gear underwater I guess, well, they fear because there's a "key" component of the gear missing, at least to their (and apparently your) understanding.
Plenty of divers like a chest strap. If you don't, that's fine. I don't use one for single cylinder diving either. But a chest strap doesn't qualify as nonsense.
I asked you to tell us the NEED for a chest strap, plenty of divers like a chest strap was your answer???? Was that the best you could give us champ? I'm very disappointed, for someone with such a profound knowledge of the gear, I would expect a lot more.
If you decide to use a Transpac as the basis for a sidemount rig, for instance, a chest strap is a pretty useful feature. What is your experience doing that?
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
Btw, the sidemount thread is that way. Oh wait, was that a desperate attempt at finding a reason for the, uh, nonsense chest strap for backmount singles or doubles?
None that I know off. They come off easily. And, you don't have to buy them to begin with.
Yep, I know, like I said, nonsense.
Some divers prefer a 'deluxe' harness. I have already said I don't. Again, some divers prefer is your answer, boy, those are lacking a lot of "understanding" you keep claiming to have
However, I do find a quick release on the left shoulder strap very convenient for diving double cylinders, with a drysuit. It makes getting out of the gear much easier. Make up your mind, earlier you said : "I have both, and prefer the single piece harness by far".
What is your experience?
Judged by what I read so far from you in this thread, it is vastly greater than yours, specially in the gear functionality department.
Uh, buy more webbing? This must be one of those trick questions, since it makes no sense. Oh, wait, that must be nonsense. What is the point? Replacing a one piece harness is easier. Replacing a 'deluxe' harness is actually still easy. Have you ever done that? I have. I will even admit that I do not care for the fact that the webbing is sewn into the top of the Transpac, instead of feeding through slots, as on a hard backplate, or many of the other 'soft' backplates. But, that is not nonsense. it is just a feature that is possibly less convenient than it might otherwise be.
LMAO! Dude, you're brave, I gotta give you that. What a load of BS.
Nope. Don't know of any rigs that have 'buckles in the crotch strap'. What are you talking about? I hope you are not referring to the D-ring in the crotch strap. If you are referring to a quick release in the crotch strap,
LOL, it's called a quick release BUCKLE, genius.
I can offer several advantages.
Sure you can, I bet they are: "some divers prefer"
Sure. It is not as negatively buoyant as the currently available 'hard' backplates, either AL of steel. It is much lighter for travel.
But that does not justify need for being soft, you missed the key point of the question, I'll repeat, can you tell us the need for a soft "backplate"?
By the way, you may not be up to speed on current trends in diving technology. But, A LOT of manufacturers are coming out with 'soft' backplates - Zeagle, Apeks, Oxycheq, etc. They are often labelled as lightweight travel plates. Do you have any experience with them?
So is that what the transpac is, a travel bc? Wow, it does it all eh? Single tank, doubles, sidemount and also travel.
You clearly are not up to speed on current trends in the dive industry BS, but A LOT of manufacturers pray on ill informed keyboard divers such as yourself, they are good at coming out with the latest gear/gadget inventions to "solve" a poor/lack of skill, and thanks to people like yourself, they continue to thrive!
As you said, 'Maybe I'm unfamiliar with what Dive Rite Transpac.' And, I don't think the 'maybe' is needed. A huge clue to WHAT? The stability plates refer specifically to the use of a Transpac with double cylinders. They actually work quite well. But, I didn't have the sense that the OP was concerned at present with doubles. Since you are unfamiliar with the Transpac, let me enlighten you. I have actually dove one. No that's not enough. I even own several - including the Transpac that forms the basis of my Nomad. I don't think a Transpac is an ideal solution for the OP. But, where we differ, I actually have first hand knowledge of what I am referring to, and can hazard an informed judgement, where you are apparently relying on website photos.
Again, unfamiliarity with the simple word "maybe" leads to this, oh well, it's not the worse statements you've made today.
But in any case, stability plates is sold to address a problem created by the design in the first place, the nonsense soft "backplate" is unstable, but guess what genius? They sell an uh, stability plate, what a brilliant idea!!!
Btw, when you acquire a certain understanding of some gear functionality, a simple photo, yes, can be enough to filter the BS of what works and what doesn't, in this case in particular, there's nothing on that system that we haven't seen all over the place, specially in conventional BCD's seen in virtually any dive shop, yet again your comments point to your obvious lack of understanding about the hogarthian gear configuration, I promise you, once you understand it, you won't need to dive every rig out there to know if it is optimum or not, a simple photo could suffice.
A completely irrelevant posting. Who cares what is on the website? I must ask - what is the breaking strength of the quick release buckle (fixed it for you)? Do you actually know? No, I don't. But you're the knowledgeable one on it, so, go ahead, link a reference to that info please. Though the breaking strength of the buckle is not the only possible failure added by it, I'd still be curious to know. If you actually knew anything about the Transpac, God forbid if you had actually dove one, you wouldn't need to look on the website, would you? A picture is worth a thousand words. So, while I have already said that i don't think the Transpac is optimal for this person, I will also say - since I apparently suffer from only having first hand knowledge of the Transpac, while you have the greater benefit of website photos, that it is not nonsense. It is merely not an optimal selection.
Irrelevant enough for you not to comment on it? Yeah, I didn't think so.
