@BoundForElsewhere
Where did you pick up that webbing?
I'm finding black boring these days, plus photographing divers wearing all black can be difficult.
Story 1
I was recently in Egypt diving with two friends both of them using traditional jacket BCDs. One of them was unhappy with his second hand BCD and was looking for a replacement.
When we were on the boat trip to dive the Thistlegorm, there were 31 divers on board, and I told my friend to have a look at what other divers were using (cattle boats can be useful sometimes). The majority were jacket style, but including my rig there were only six BPWs (approx 19%). Two of them were very new looking (nice sexy blue colour) and the rest used, one very well used or left in the sun a lot (I figure that one belonged to a local guide.
The following day he purchased a back inflate Aqua Lung BCD in Dahab and it changed his diving overnight. When we returned to Dubai I gave him an old pair of Mares fins to replace his split fins, which he used last weekend to his satisfaction.
Story 2
Back in 2019 I attended ADEX in Singapore. Almost every manufacturer had BPWs on display, not one jacket BCD to be seen. What's more they were all in colours, no black. Even the big H was displaying fluorescent green and pink wings. I saw this as a revolution in buoyancy devices in the fast growing Asian market.
Where did you pick up that webbing?
I'm finding black boring these days, plus photographing divers wearing all black can be difficult.
Story 1
I was recently in Egypt diving with two friends both of them using traditional jacket BCDs. One of them was unhappy with his second hand BCD and was looking for a replacement.
When we were on the boat trip to dive the Thistlegorm, there were 31 divers on board, and I told my friend to have a look at what other divers were using (cattle boats can be useful sometimes). The majority were jacket style, but including my rig there were only six BPWs (approx 19%). Two of them were very new looking (nice sexy blue colour) and the rest used, one very well used or left in the sun a lot (I figure that one belonged to a local guide.
The following day he purchased a back inflate Aqua Lung BCD in Dahab and it changed his diving overnight. When we returned to Dubai I gave him an old pair of Mares fins to replace his split fins, which he used last weekend to his satisfaction.
Story 2
Back in 2019 I attended ADEX in Singapore. Almost every manufacturer had BPWs on display, not one jacket BCD to be seen. What's more they were all in colours, no black. Even the big H was displaying fluorescent green and pink wings. I saw this as a revolution in buoyancy devices in the fast growing Asian market.
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