Scubaforce or Hollis

[Marie13]

@Alexander Nygaard

The SMS 50 has a poor reputation. If you must go Hollis, the Katana 2 is the best (and most) recent of the Hollis lot, from everything I’ve heard. I had a Hollis SMS75, but after that got stolen after I left it at a dive site, I switched to a Dive Rite Nomad XT. It’s old school and bulky, but it’s comfortable and works well for my cold water/steel tank/drysuit diving. The XDeep seems to be the current darling of the SM world.

 

[grantmac]

I'd keep looking used.
My first (so far only) SM BCD is an old Armadillo, it works a lot better than more recent but poorer designed ones.
I'm upgrading to an Xdeep Tec only because I found one for a great price, I don't expect it'll make me dive any better.

 

[scuba127]

I agree with Marie13. I have an SMS 50 and dove it for several years. I didn't care for it out of the box but grew to like it with some modifications. I now dive the Katana 2 and it is, imo, a better rig than the SMS 50.