It's hard to imagine anybody in Western Canada still thinking of a Hog rig as "weird"! Around here, I'd say we see as many backplate/longhose setups as we do anything else.
But resorts definitely see the setups as outright bizarre. I love to tell the story of our trip to KBR in Indonesia, where the first day, the staff set my rig up with the plate toward the tank. I looked at it quizzically and wondered how on earth they thought I was going to put it on . . . but I fixed it, and there were no problems. Several years later, Nw Grateful Diver went to the same resort. They saw his equipment (without even knowing he was from Seattle) and immediately said, "Oh, do you know Lynne?" I guess they thought all us weird gear divers must come from the same place!
But resorts definitely see the setups as outright bizarre. I love to tell the story of our trip to KBR in Indonesia, where the first day, the staff set my rig up with the plate toward the tank. I looked at it quizzically and wondered how on earth they thought I was going to put it on . . . but I fixed it, and there were no problems. Several years later, Nw Grateful Diver went to the same resort. They saw his equipment (without even knowing he was from Seattle) and immediately said, "Oh, do you know Lynne?" I guess they thought all us weird gear divers must come from the same place!
