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When they become DIR standard, maybe I'll check 'em out...
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BP/Wings are more versatile (i.e. more adjustable, so that the same basic pieces can fit a wide variety of body shapes), but not infinitely so. One person may start out with steel, find it too heavy, and go to aluminum. Another may find the wing they originally got has more lift than they need so is a little sluggish, another may switch wing shape for better trim, based on their body shape and size. As poster #2 mentioned, some folks are switching to sidemount. I see lots of posts from people who switched from traditional jacked BCs to BP/W and say they'd never go back. I've seen posts from people who went from BP/W to jacket, but they are very rare.
I got mine when I started cave training, and you can't do cave in a BP/W at all. Got a single-tank adaptor for it and now use it exclusively; diving it with a single tank is almost like having nothing there at all in the water.
Pullmyfinger,
I'd "like" your post, but then I'd be "dog piling" on Marg.
-hangfire...
Pullmyfinger,
I'd "like" your post, but then I'd be "dog piling" on Marg.
-hangfire...