Newbie needs help on regulators

[Bubbles!!]

Hello,
I need some advice on regulators. My LDS is apparently a strong supporter of ScubaPro. That's great and all, but I need an honest opinion because even though I really like to support my LDS, I am buying a regulator, my life support system!! and I want to make sure that I am not getting biased opinions. From what I've checked out. Mares, Atomic, Scubapro, and Apeks are what I've heard the most about and what I hear the best on.
My main concern is this. I know I am new but everytime I look up in the water, my air flow becomes restricted and I cannot look up for long. Is there a regulator out there that distributes even and smooth air flow no matter what the position? And I am concerned about performance. If anyone has any good input, please let me know. Thanks!

 

[El Orans]

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[elmbruker]

Welcome to the board.

From what I've read..."Poseidon extreme" regs work well in all positions. Check out the Regulator section for lots of good information on all the regs you listed.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Welcome Bubbles! I'd encourage you to hang out in the Regulators form, run some searches, follow the threads and also ask questions. Your question may not get enough visibility posted here in the Introductions and Greet forum.

With that said, in my experience, you'll find most (maybe all) LDS only care a small number of brands. It is just too expensive to care all of the brands of equipment. So, visit several LDS' if you can and do alot of reading online. Certainly here at SB (the best resource, of course!), check out vendor websites as they all have a presence online, scubadiving.com (Scuba Diving Magazine) for reviews, and I'm sure others I'm not thinking of right now.

I think you'll find that there are a group of maybe 5-8 major players in the regulator market and while there are certainly differences between them, they all really do make very good, reliable products.

 

[Jason Ooi]

welcome to scuba board

 

[DandyDon]

Howdy and welcome to SB!

The suggestions to go to the Reg forum are good, or maybe we can move this there? I wonder about that looking up thing, never noticed it in my Oceanic or my MK-25?

Good to have you here. Click here to PM me if I can help you get started in our various forums.

:cowboy2: don

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[Trinigordo]

Bubbles I am also new to scuba and the reg I went with has been great so far. I went with the Aeris Pro from www.scubatoys.com Larry gave me great advice and a great price and if you mention you are a Scuba Board member he will give you 10% off.

Larry could help you decide what would work well for you

 

[MSilvia]

Apeks and Scubapro both have superlative reputations... the information you're getting doesn't seem to be biased. Mares and Atomic both make some very good regs as well.

 

[tjmills]

Lets not leave out the parent....Aqualung to this list please.

 

[DelightedDiver]

Hi Bubbles and welcome,

My husband and I both dive with Dive Rite regulators and love them.