Does this BC product exist?

[MSilvia]

Okay you guy's......... I've shown you mine so me yours!!! Put a picture of a bp/w showing better streamling and I'll stop flashing mine.

Here's one of a diver in a BP/W scootering, when drag becomes a much more significant factor.

 

[wreckchick]

I use a bp/w for recreational diving so there's no need to have tech tendencies before you try one out. I have a 6# SS plate and a 27# Pioneer wing. I'm very streamlined in the water and my trim is pretty bang on. The plate itself (being in the back) helps to offset the face-planting. I find that regular back-inflate bcs have a more forward tendency than the bp/w.

Yes, I'm one of the "vocal minority" that sings the praises of a bp/w but I have also dove a lot of other bcs out there and nothing can compare to how I feel when I dive the bp/w. It is a superior design underwater and I don't have any issue with face-planting at the surface. Never have.

Rachel

P.S. When I orginally made the switch, I immediately dropped 4# off my belt and my trim came into square almost on dive #1.

 

[kidspot]

hmmm - I can't see that image ... is it just me?

 

[MSilvia]

hmmm - I can't see that image ... is it just me?

Maybe a link to the gallery instead....
http://www.thedecostop.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1372

 

[kidspot]

yup - that did it once I logged in. Thx

 

[GreenDiverDown]

Maybe a link to the gallery instead....
http://www.thedecostop.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=1372

I don't know... I think Don's example might have you beat.

 

[LSDeep]

It does exist. The BCD Tim mentioned is the Oceanic Outrigger:

http://www.oceanicworldwide.com/p_bcs_outrigger.html

it never ceases to amaze me what people come up with!!! teaching proper equipment config. makes this product useless in my eyes.
as an alternative, if you have one of the old horseshoe / toiletseat bcd's i guess you could wear it in top of your bp/w and have a second / third independent system and the best for both (top and below) worlds .

 

[djanni]

Here's one of a diver in a BP/W scootering, when drag becomes a much more significant factor.
http://www.thedecostop.com/photopost/watermark.php?file=1372

Gee, what's streamlined about that. No donut Matt.

 

[djanni]

P.S. When I orginally made the switch, I immediately dropped 4# off my belt and my trim came into square almost on dive #1.

Just courious........ if you dropped 4 lbs off your belt how much did the plate weight? Could it be you just moved that weight from the belt to plate?

 

[djanni]

It's easier to keep good trim with a backplate when you must carry additional lead because of thick neoprene and those silly AL80 tanks. The Luna jacket puts a lot of air in the back of the shoulders because it is anti-squeeze and not as bukly in the front as some other jackets.

It's easier to keep good trim with a backplate when you must carry additional lead because of thick neoprene and those silly AL80 tanks. Humm, so if your not wearing thick neoprene or a silly AL80 and don't need extra weight a jacket can be pretty streamlined. That is what you said isn't it?

Not hard to be streamlined when it's empty...

Not hard to be streamlined when it's empty. Who ever saw this in writing; "go with a bp/w and you'll be more streamlined than a jacket bc's unless the jacket bc is empty."


I love it!!!

What happend to all those blanket and unqualified statements such as "go with a bp/w and improve your trim?"

Now you guys are starting to say there are conditions so this is progress.

Good thread.