Best Jacket Style BC with Tech Options

[danvolker]

How about this Aqualung Pro Unlimited:

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Plenty of attachment points, zippered pockets, integrated weights and a very convenient dive knife placement.

Yes, I am being sarcastic.

Excellent example of "bad faith" marketing, by a big mfg....it is fine for a brand new open water diving student, I suppose, doing 60 foot or less dives for the next year....and maybe forever.
The ones that expect to go for big adventure, in their distant future, need to research ads and gear like that !!!!

 

[mattoau]

Excellent example of "bad faith" marketing, by a big mfg....it is fine for a brand new open water diving student, I suppose, doing 60 foot or less dives for the next year....and maybe forever.
The ones that expect to go for big adventure, in their distant future, need to research ads and gear like that !!!!

I'm prepared for a flurry of responses, but does anyone actually mount and stow their knife in the same orientation as it is in that photo?

 

[Splitlip]

How about this Aqualung Pro Unlimited:

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Plenty of attachment points, zippered pockets, integrated weights and a very convenient dive knife placement.

Yes, I am being sarcastic.

If the knife placement was convenient, it would be rotated 180 degrees. (not being sarcastic. )

OP, AFAIK there is no jacket for tech applications. And the Zeagles are not jackets. Why consider anything but a plate, wing and harness?

 

[Splitlip]

Dan: You might have missed Crush's "sarcasm" explanation. Difficult to read.

But most agree:

"Excellent example of "bad faith" marketing, by a big mfg....it is fine for a brand new open water diving student, I suppose, doing 60 foot or less dives for the next year....and maybe forever.
The ones that expect to go for big adventure, in their distant future, need to research ads and gear like that !!!! "

 

[danvolker]

I'm prepared for a flurry of responses, but does anyone actually mount and stow their knife in the same orientation as it is in that photo?

I think some of the people that buy that BC alternate between the position in the photo, and holding the knife between their teeth, to look cool

 

[danvolker]

Dan: You might have missed Crush's "sarcasm" explanation. Difficult to read.

But most agree:

"Excellent example of "bad faith" marketing, by a big mfg....it is fine for a brand new open water diving student, I suppose, doing 60 foot or less dives for the next year....and maybe forever.
The ones that expect to go for big adventure, in their distant future, need to research ads and gear like that !!!! "

I figured he was offering the photo for us to laugh at.....

 

[Crush]

I think some of the people that buy that BC alternate between the position in the photo, and holding the knife between their teeth, to look cool

Or, they dive with two knives, one mounted on either (outer) side of their lower legs...

 

[LouieLouie]

I suppose that's the new version of the Seaquest Pro, which is - or rather was - the best jacket style BCD you could come across. Aqualung seems to have added some pointless D-rings and some retard has managed to mount the knife backwards. If mounted properly it can easily be reached with both hands.

 

[DivingEnthusiast]

If the knife placement was convenient, it would be rotated 180 degrees. (not being sarcastic. )

Sorry to jump in, but I own a Pro QD (I'm not a tech diver) and have a Wenoka Squeezelock mounted on it. The BC does not come with a knife, there are simply two holes where the knife is pictured. That was their snafu to put it that way, you can mount it either way you want.

 

[danvolker]

Sorry to jump in, but I own a Pro QD (I'm not a tech diver) and have a Wenoka Squeezelock mounted on it. The BC does not come with a knife, there are simply two holes where the knife is pictured. That was their snafu to put it that way, you can mount it either way you want.

The knife was just "icing on the cake"...the OP was discussing the idea of a jacket BC for Tech diving applications....and the photo of the bc a few posts later assisted in showing how funny the idea is....Tech divers would not consider the jacket bc for tech...only the marketing "minds" in the dive industry could ever be foolish enough to suggest this type of mis-match.

For 60 foot dives, these jacket bc's are fine....for all practical purposes, they can be fine for 130 foot dives, as long as you don't have big currents.
Once you get in to significant currents, and begin to need double tanks, stages, etc., a jacket is just the wrong tool for the job.