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Hopefully Scott can definetively answer this question, but I'm open to all users and any experience they have. Ok
I live in Australia, I'm an American who has done 20 years of diving in the Great lakes (Lake Michigan mostly) but never in the Ocean. I have been in some real muck and under some thick ice haha. At anyrate my experience here in Sydney is Nil. I love to dive wrecks and routinely push the recreational diver limits. I've always used Poseidon Cyklons or Odin/Jetstream regulators save a stint when I tried some mid range USDivers that routinely freeflowed at depth. I'm quite happy to stick with my Poseidons but this year my 12yo daughter is interested in learning to dive along with my girlfriend. Which gives me the oportunity to buy more gear. haha End result is I want a regulator that I can trust with my daughter to use but also if she decides she isn't into diving I can use for the types of diving I do. Who knows I might give up my poseidons (unlikely) At anyrate the dealer here suggest the XP over the VI because sydney ocean waters are fairly warm (Hot compared to what I'm used to) Is it only the cold water behaviour difference between the two ? Might I encounter at 30 to 40 metres the type of conditions that the VI would be better suited for? At anyrate any discussion regarding these two regs would be appreciated.
I live in Australia, I'm an American who has done 20 years of diving in the Great lakes (Lake Michigan mostly) but never in the Ocean. I have been in some real muck and under some thick ice haha. At anyrate my experience here in Sydney is Nil. I love to dive wrecks and routinely push the recreational diver limits. I've always used Poseidon Cyklons or Odin/Jetstream regulators save a stint when I tried some mid range USDivers that routinely freeflowed at depth. I'm quite happy to stick with my Poseidons but this year my 12yo daughter is interested in learning to dive along with my girlfriend. Which gives me the oportunity to buy more gear. haha End result is I want a regulator that I can trust with my daughter to use but also if she decides she isn't into diving I can use for the types of diving I do. Who knows I might give up my poseidons (unlikely) At anyrate the dealer here suggest the XP over the VI because sydney ocean waters are fairly warm (Hot compared to what I'm used to) Is it only the cold water behaviour difference between the two ? Might I encounter at 30 to 40 metres the type of conditions that the VI would be better suited for? At anyrate any discussion regarding these two regs would be appreciated.
