When to go tech...

[Griffo]

Randy - I already dive a harness and wing - Hollis HTS2, which I bought hoping not to have to buy another one for tech. I can add a backplate easily enough and buy a new wing for doubles, so hopefully I won't need to sell it at the moment. It's not DIR-compliant though (too many bells and whistles, I think), so that's part of what puts me off the GUE route. I'm also just not convinced by a philosophy which is so rigid. Maybe I should be, but that's something I'll do a bit more research into, including by reading the millions of threads on here which give the good, bad and ugly sides to GUE.

---------- Post added March 13th, 2013 at 09:56 AM ----------



Ha! Thanks for the concern! I'm not rich, but I do ok. And no kids to spend money on yet, so I may as well spend my salary on diving!

You are going to end up with a whole assortment of plates and wings if you go tech. It's nice to carry some of your weight in the steel plate for drysuit diving too for a bunch of reasons. At $100 for a steel plate and webbing setup, it's really an insignificant cost. Hollis also push dual bladder, massive, bungeed wings which aren't popular with the DIR folk either for a variety of reasons, so i'm assuming any wings you own are non bungeed.

Happy to catch up and have a chat about the GUE philosphy a bit more if you like. It's really not about the equipment.

http://www.divedir.com/DIR-Theory/what-is-dir-anyway.html