Hey Stefan,
You didn't change your avatar because of this thread did you?
You didn't change your avatar because of this thread did you?
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jepuskar:Hey Stefan,
You didn't change your avatar because of this thread did you?
Warren_L:I dunno, I was focused on taking a picture at that moment.
I guess he must have pressed the purge on his bailout, judging from where the bubbles are coming from. Either that or it's coming out of his butt dump on the drysuit.
Nice shot buddy!Warren_L:
Tmccar1:Or he's having a seriously bad day with his P-valve. Yea, the horizontal thing on the prism is a pain with the standarn rig. You have a tendancy to float vertical unless you weight it different. A lot of guys use trim pockets mounted on the top of the rig.
Jason Ooi:Nice shot buddy!
Warren_L:Right - just like on any rig, open circuit or closed circuit, it's a matter of finding the proper weight distribution by adjusting where the weight is positioned. I found with the stock harness on my evolution that much of the weight was in the pouches around the waist harness and some had to be put on top of the head. I didn't like this configuration too much, so I swapped out the harness and put a 12lb steel backplate with my own webbed harness just like on my open circuit doubles and it trims out much better.
Never had a problem with that, not in the pool with a 3mm shorty nor in the sea with a drysuit. Balanced beautifully with the CL pouches loaded.Tmccar1:Yea, the horizontal thing on the prism is a pain with the standarn rig. You have a tendancy to float vertical unless you weight it different.
Tmccar1:Yea, I know a lot of people who use the standard OC backplates. I bought a long plate from Grey Wolf Innovations that is unbelievable. It's stainless steel and you mount the whole rig onto it. It's a bit more work than two bolts with wing nuts though. It's got a beautiful argon bottle holder on the bottom. It's a great system and really helped out some of the trim problems I had with the standard rig. I wonder if you could mount an evolution on it.