ams511
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What to you mean sized? A Hog harness is adjustable.
What is the Covert not doing for you?
Question My debate - go with a BP/W or stick with a back-inflate BC?
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One thing I enjoy about a jacket style are the pockets. I feel like I have a good amount of easy to access storage right at my side.
How do people handle storage with a backplate & wing? Pockets only?
How do people handle storage with a backplate & wing? Pockets only?
Anyone interested in the question posed in the thread title should take a look at this parallel thread: Loving my DGX BP/W!
ams511
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Wet shorts, cutting devices can be placed on the webbing, SMB under a backplate pad, add pockets to the webbing. Add pockets to a wetsuit or drysuit. Clip items to d-rings.
Customize it however you want. If you want a pocket, buy one and attach it where you want.
For single tank recreational diving, I don't use any pockets. Lights have bolt snaps and are clipped to chest D-rings. Camera is clipped to waist D-ring or crotch strap D-ring, or GoPro clipped to chest D-ring. Reel or spool with SMB is clipped to a waist D-ring. Cutting devices are in sheaths on my waist belt.
What else do I need?
If I really want pockets on that kind of dive, I wear pocket shorts. I have the Highland ones and the ScubaPro ones and the SP ones are what I use. The Highland ones looked good on paper, but they kind of suck in real life. If it's really warm water, I will just use the SP pockets shorts as my swim trunks. I.e. dive with only a rash guard, those pocket shorts, and booties. Otherwise, I will wear the SP shorts over a thin wetsuit.
For technical diving, I have a wetsuit with pockets (Waterproof W7) and my drysuits have pockets.
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A few over 2,250 dives since 2002 with a Scubapro stainless steel Super Cinch tank band. I've never had a loose cylinder
A few over 2,250 dives since 2002 with a Scubapro stainless steel Super Cinch tank band. I've never had a loose cylinder
That may be so, but I just don't "like" one tank band. I want the bottom of the tank held as firmly in place as the top. Now I've been in a BP/W since dive #7 so I haven't had to worry about it.
YMMV. If I were forced to use one, I would want it to be one of those ScubaPro style cinch bands.
I use ScubaPro-STYLE QR tank bands on my single tank rig. I do use 2 of them. Never had one open by accident or get loose.
I like them way better than standard cam bands. With a hang strap on my BP, it is so quick and easy to change tanks!
I like them way better than standard cam bands. With a hang strap on my BP, it is so quick and easy to change tanks!
That may be so, but I just don't "like" one tank band. I want the bottom of the tank held as firmly in place as the top. Now I've been in a BP/W since dive #7 so I haven't had to worry about it.
Ditto. But, @scubadada now has me thinking about maybe taking one of mine off my BP, just to make it that little bit lighter and easier to pack.... I might just have to at least try it....
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