Question Dive Rite wing pull dump

[Umuntu]

Shoulder pull dumps are a minority configuration.

Not if you include the pull dumps on poodle jacket BCDs.

If you include all BCDs then plain elbows would be a very minor percentage.

 

[-JD-]

Not if you include the pull dumps on poodle jacket BCDs.

If you include all BCDs then plain elbows would be a very minor percentage.

Unquestionably, true. I was (erroneously, without full elaboration) speaking about true BP\W configurations (i.e. not the current crop of back-inflate BCs from AL, SP, etc.) that I've seen.

Among those, Dive Rite seems rare in offering contemporary pull-dump options on their wings. I am curious as to the rationale.

 

[The Chairman]

Among those, Dive Rite seems rare in offering contemporary pull-dump options on their wings. I am curious as to the rationale.

It's really easier to dump air in a tight spot. Blue Springs Madison comes to mind. Try lifting your hand high enough in that space to do that. Not that you really need to adjust buoyancy when you're so close that sometimes you're having to suck your gut in to get through. The pull dump valves are not nearly as fragile as some would have you believe, but if you don't like or trust them, stay away! I've been using them as long as I've had BCs and love them, even to putting them on wings that did not come with them.

I think some of the reticence to use them comes from the fact that you can't find a short hose that uses them. Making your own from leader mono solves that easily. I've even had people suggest that making my own pull strings could be catastrophically bad. Meh.