Gear ideas needed for young girl

[amado_sarhan]

I recommend for regs:

- Apeks XL4 Ocea. Sustainable, light weight, comfortable mouthpiece, and already comes with the (lighter) braided hoses. Quality stuff. - my daughter dives that. It's not cheap, but not expensive.
- Very light weight, excellent performance, long intervals between service. However, extremely expensive. quality stuff.
- Scubapro Mk21 - very affordable for its performance, still has venturi at this price range. Much more access to servicing than the above two (but that depends on where you live).

For BCDs, I don't know from your post the type you're looking for, but I know little now about jacket styles (last dive 20 years ago). The only thing I know is that backplate/wing is easier for travelling. Xdeep, Deept6, Apeks, Tecline - all good. Go with aluminum backplate for traveling. Personally, I recommend Xdeep Zeos 28 (single tank), and she can choose the color - that's my 14 year old daughter's.

 

[Bob118]

both my kids learned to dive at 10, and after their course, i switched them to BP/W + L/S hose. (they are now 13 and 15 yo)

the BPis the oxycheq Ultra Lite Travel Plate, with the 30# wing 18#, 30# and 40# Single Wings. they are now 30cm taller and 10kg heavier, and all I had to do was swap out webbing. the should be able to use them until their fully grown.

for regs, i got the DGX D6 single-tank packagae, which are made by deep6

 

[JuLe]

A little update. My daughter completed her CMAS * course as planned. After her course, we did a few more dives at my usual dive spot here before heading to visit her grandma in Cyprus where we did 6 dives during our 3 week stay. After Cyprus, dives here have been a bit on the cold side for her, so this time around she's asking for money for a drysuit for her birthday and christmas presents. (She's also saving herself from what she gets paid for work as a swimming instructor once a week)

We ended up getting her an apex ATX regulator set last time around. She has a bp/w waiting, but she has opted to use the jacket style bcd she used for the course for the time being.

Here are a couple of pics, sort of just to say hello.

 

[NetG]

For the reg, you can watch to lighter reg , like APEKS Fligh ou AL Mikron. It seems have an option in pink color !

 

[JuLe]

I actually did look at Apeks Flight, when I buying the ATX set, but besides it being 250 e more expensive, it also is not recommended for our type of diving, as we do quite a bit of cold water dives (temps below 10 C, hence the need for a drysuit next) So I decided to go with what I know to have worked well for the rest of our family.

Here's a link to the drysuit we're looking to get. (My oldest has been diving with one for some years now and has been very happy with it)

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[happy-diver]

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