Dive gear configuration, good ideas!

[jadairiii]

This is mine, solo or with a buddy, doesn't change. Gauges go on my wrist, 7' long hose, neckless reg is hidden on the other side, valve/reg is always DIN. If I'm not diving with my wetsuit that has thigh pockets I attach a harness pocket. Depending on season, weighted STA or just an old Diverite plastic one. Lobsters are optional.

 

[Wheeler925]

This is mine, solo or with a buddy, doesn't change. Gauges go on my wrist, 7' long hose, neckless reg is hidden on the other side, valve/reg is always DIN. If I'm not diving with my wetsuit that has thigh pockets I attach a harness pocket. Depending on season, weighted STA or just an old Diverite plastic one. Lobsters are optional.

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Looks sleek. I like.

 

[lowwall]

This is mine, solo or with a buddy, doesn't change. Gauges go on my wrist, 7' long hose, neckless reg is hidden on the other side, valve/reg is always DIN. If I'm not diving with my wetsuit that has thigh pockets I attach a harness pocket. Depending on season, weighted STA or just an old Diverite plastic one. Lobsters are optional.

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If someone with a rig that looks like this offers me advice, I'll be listening very carefully.

 

[dmaziuk]

I'm not un-threading my webbing to get to the already-made ones, so here's one I haven't stitched up yet. They are expensive for what they are, but hey, tactical!

Stitch a couple of pieces of webbing along the sides, where photoshopped black dots are:

It'll slide on the standard 2" webbing and you can attach any standard MOLLE trinket to it. I have a trauma shears pouch on one and flashlight holder on another.

 

[tridacna]

2. Foot wear for wetsuit diving. Neoprene sock with baseball boots on top. Very comfortable.

Do you mean “basketball” shoes? Baseballers use cleats, remember those rugby boots when you were a kid? Not sure they’d fit in my fins

 

[MB NZ]

Do you mean “basketball” shoes? Baseballers use cleats, remember those rugby boots when you were a kid? Not sure they’d fit in my fins

Probably. You might have to go up a fin size, but it's doable.

 

[KenE]

I appreciate that some divers may need those plastic buckles in their harness due to physical reasons but why not just have the buckle and get rid of the extra length of webbing and the useless dangly plastic D-ring they are commonly terminated with?

As I have a bad shoulder and use this regularly I have contemplated what you describe. However, I find it necessary to maintain the strap and ring because the same arm does not have the strength to lift the weighted BC to get it to buckle. Making the buckle longer helps get it buckled and then tightened. I still have a puddle jacket until it wears out or I start diving more to justify making the change.

 

[Nemrod]

As I have a bad shoulder and use this regularly I have contemplated what you describe. However, I find it necessary to maintain the strap and ring because the same arm does not have the strength to lift the weighted BC to get it to buckle. Making the buckle longer helps get it buckled and then tightened. I still have a puddle jacket until it wears out or I start diving more to justify making the change.

I understand, you have to do what you have to do . And jackets and such are so varied in arrangement of straps as to have one method would not be possible.

But for me, BP/wing, also having had shoulder surgery and numerous injuries (bicycle racing, motorcycle racing, car wreck and other stupid stuff) I manage just fine. The secret to getting in and out of a BP/wing is to use a stiffer webbing and to sit down into it and to stand up out of it with your arms straight down in both cases. If I try to put it on like a jacket or a suit coat, yes, that becomes difficult for me. I leave my shoulder straps quite loose, the waist strap gets pulled snug and the crotch strap limits movement. Leaving the shoulder straps such that I can fit a fist under each allows me to easily pop the straps over my shoulder for doff and don. To some degree, these things are both a skill and an adjustment issue.

I have spent years trying to whittle my gear down to the minium and cleanest configuration and still I am not satisfied. But, I will dislocate a shoulder before I have a dangly plastic D-ring on a loose strap end, but again, each to their own. If that is what I needed to do to continue diving I guess I could forgive myself a dangly D-ring strap .

 

[Cornbread O'Malley]

Shamelessly borrowed from another thread which has turned in to a bun fight for some reason.

This thread is much more useful than "the other" thread. Thanks @MB NZ.

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This is what my setup looks like. Just like how @jadairiii has his configured except I use a carbon fiber backplate.

And a new (Florida rigged) Mark 11 with a G250 second stage, 40 inches braided hose and a DGX BCI and B&G SPG:

I like this regulator setup and going to give it a try. I purchased the swivel for my 40-inch hose today.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Waterproof drysuit, 10mm hood, Jetfins with bungee straps, Freedom plate, weightbelt, computer on right wrist, compass on left wrist, seven-foot primary with bungeed necklass backup. I moved my spg to a shoulder D-ring for better visibility. I got rid of the green gloves and now only use 720s. I wear the same gear whether solo or buddy diving. I wear the same gear in warm water with the exception of a drysuit.