Wow! Mares Synchro Power Tech

[wazza]

Guys listen this Mares BCD is a very good one u can say its from the best recreational BCDs I had one 5 years ago, but it NOT a tek BCD at all .
One of the rules of tek diving is redundancy and in this BCD u don’t have it .
Redundancy in the BCD is to have 2 bladers in it, so in case of a failure for one of the bladers u can use the second one.
From the best BCDs for tek are the Dive Rite ( The Supper wing ) and the OMS wing.

 

[Padipro]

I have the older Synchro Tech and dove with it for years, both teaching and recreational, and found it to be a very comfortable, easy to use BC. It may look like a tech BC and even hold doubles but it deffinately is not tech. It's a great recreational BC but not something I would or do use to do any kind of advanced diving. I've sence switched to a back plate and harness with with both the wreck wings for singles and the super wings for doubles but still have the old Synchro Tech in the locker as a back up.

Scott

 

[raxafarian]

MikeFerrara once bubbled...
They say it's the perfect tech solution. If that was true I would expect to see many experienced tech divers using it but I don't. IMO, the thing is trash and $10 is too much and 250 is a crime. I wonder why LP doesn't tell people that. I wonder what their tech diving experience is.

the sad thing is: many LDS's will push these things too.

 

[raxafarian]

wazza once bubbled...
One of the rules of tek diving is redundancy and in this BCD u don’t have it .
Redundancy in the BCD is to have 2 bladers in it, so in case of a failure for one of the bladers u can use the second one.
From the best BCDs for tek are the Dive Rite ( The Supper wing ) and the OMS wing.

That's too funny.

 

[MikeS]

Based on the picture $250 is a great deal when you consider that it comes out to about only $3 per d-ring.

Mike

 

[wazza]

Excuse my stupidity raxafarian
what is funny about what I said ??

raxafarian once bubbled...



That's too funny.

 

[WreckWriter]

wazza once bubbled...
Excuse my stupidity raxafarian
what is funny about what I said ??

I think Rax found it humorous that what you claimed to the proper meaning of redundancy in tech diving is exactly the oposite of what most tech divers believe.

Tom

 

[Padipro]

raxafarian once bubbled...



That's too funny.

Once again someone just had to be a smartass. Rather then using their training and expreience to educate others they had to try to make someone else look stupid.

 

[joens]

you can get a diverite stainless backplate with your choice of harness and diverite classic wing for $289 from
www.northeastscubasupply.com in my opinion a lot better deal.
joens

 

[buff]

"you can get a diverite stainless backplate with your choice of harness and diverite classic wing for $289 from....."

A better deal is to get a Fred T. backplate and wing......and I ORIGINATED THE POSTING.

I think the backplate and wing is a better option for EVERYONE. But, at half price of what it normally is, the Mares Synchro Power Tech BCD(Man, that's a lot to write) is a good deal for those divers who have "not seen the light" of the backplate and wing.