I bought one when it first came out, I was a Dacor dealer back then, and I don't think that I used it more than once or twice. If was a fiasco from the beginning.
Have you ever used scuba equipment you absolutely hated!
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I bought one when it first came out, I was a Dacor dealer back then, and I don't think that I used it more than once or twice. If was a fiasco from the beginning.
Any jacket style BCD, since i got the Hydros Pro i feel much more steady.
My first pair of fins were the Cressi frog plus. Absolute disaster! They were pulling me up the second i stopped finning. I didn't want to add ankle weights so i switched to RK3 that are probably the best fins i have ever tried!
My first pair of fins were the Cressi frog plus. Absolute disaster! They were pulling me up the second i stopped finning. I didn't want to add ankle weights so i switched to RK3 that are probably the best fins i have ever tried!
Aluminum tanks when diving with a drysuit in cold water. If I have to use an AL tank with my drysuit I’ll gripe, but I’ll make the dive.
Barefoot fins. If I can’t use booties the dive is canceled.
Barefoot fins. If I can’t use booties the dive is canceled.
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My semi dry and my 7mm .. i hate them both equally but so far I've only physically punished the 7mm..i shot it with a cross bow and it deserved it.
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Damn son, are you sure you like diving at all?
ALways remember, nothing is a total loss, it can always serve as a bad example.
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I've tossed a few buddies, but never gear. If you don't like a piece of gear, you might not be using it right. Might. I see people cussing gear all the time that is not suitable for what they are trying to do. It's important to use the right tool for the job and that's up to the diver: not the gear. Sure, some items don't get as much use, but that's true of my tool box as well. I went for a long time avoiding full foot fins and a snorkel, but now I wear them just about every day now when I go to exercise in the springs. Big ass boots and stiff fins seem out of place without a tank on my back.
Well "Dad,"
I have been diving for 50 years now and I have had the chance to try many things and have seen a great deal of equipment evolution through the decades and I have shaped opinions based on my wide experience. As an instructor/instructor examiner since 1987 and a dive center owner and dive equipment technician, it is my job and responsibility to become familiar with as many types of dive equipment as humanly possible and test as many of them to be able to give advice and recommendations on dive equipment to my students.
You are always entitled to your own opinions on what you like and don't like and don't have to agree with others, it is a free world.
They maybe using right also and that piece of equipment is a piece of sheit. You can't deny that there are equipment that isn't suitable for human use. I don't understand why you always blame the user not the equipment.
People here are relaying their experience with some pieces of equipment for the diving they are doing and based on their circumstances not yours.
The Chairman
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I ran a student machine and welding shop for the College of Architecture at the University of Florida. I would take great care to show them how to use a tool, be it a lathe, mill or band saw. I would watch them carefully for a few minutes to make sure they were safe and not damaging equipment. I would then leave them, sit at my desk taking care of various things and listen. I could hear the process and knew if they were doing it right just by the sound. I was known for a catch phrase I repeated often when things began to howl: "It's not the tool."
Scuba, like using tools, is all about limits. It's not up to the tool to be used correctly, but the user. If you use equipment that doesn't fit, is ill serviced or not otherwise suitable for the job, you will fail. You can blame the equipment all you want, but they don't have a choice here. You have the choice.
People will tell me how horrible a BC is. Try diving without one. I have. I still often dive without a bladder on my harness. Does that make the bladder 'bad'? I don't rely on equipment to keep me safe: I rely on my skills. Some people hate split fins, yet I have hundreds of dives on them. You have to kick quicker to go faster, not harder. It's exactly the opposite for my cave fins. Each tool has a technique you need to master. If you don't learn it and use the tool correctly, you will fail. You call the tool garbage while I see your technique as lacking. I don't use split fins, because I would rather kick harder than faster especially with heavy gear or towing a distressed diver. It suits my massive thighs and calves. Calling the fins garbage is intellectually dishonest. They just don't work well for me.
It's not the tool. Even when you think it's the tool, it's still not the tool. It's not ever the tool. It's always the user.
My intent was to express a perspective different than most. Perhaps to help you pause and think. I get that people don't like taking responsibility for their decisions and/or actions. I'm different in that respect, I guess. I'm sorry if this offends you. That wasn't my intent, but it's still not the tool.
There's a big difference between something being unsafe and something being disliked by the user.
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