If backplate/wing systems are so good, why do people sell them?

[DazedAndConfuzed]

Blasphemy on ScubaBoard!

where is the dislike button?

And why is the "Buoyancy Compensators" forum not called "BP/W" forum"?

 

[Paladin]

What system did you try? How long did you try it? and Why don't you like it?

Dive Rite Classic Wing on a Dive Rite plate. I don't use a BC underwater, only as surface flotation. I didn't even own any sort of BC until the fall of 2009. I didn't learn to dive with one (1965) and just didn't see the need for one until my sons decided to get into diving. I bought a horse collar first. I liked it and still have it. Then I bought a jacket and liked it as well. When I went to doubles, I bought the BP/W setup (because of what I read here on SB) and dived it for a summer. Hated it. Surface flotation was awkward at best. The danged thing kept wanting to face plant me, even with two steel 72s an 6lbs of lead on my back. I eventually configured an old style plastic backpack with twin bands and switched back to my horse collar when diving doubles. I usually use my double hose with my doubles anyway, so it works out.

 

[miami2000]

I use my BCD for a single tank and my wing /back plate for doubles.