You have GOT TO BE KIDDING!- New Aqualung BC

[Diver Dennis]

Lynne, I have seen no literature from AquaLung stating that. Have you? If they had said that, I would be in full agreement with you.

 

[Blacthorn]

So, which is easier to use? I have two buttons one puts air in, the other lets air out. They aren't marked, and really there is no way to tell what they each do without trying them. OR I have a single lever which adds air, or lets air out. When I pull towards my head it puts air in, when I push the lever downward (away from my head) I let air out. It certainly is more intuative to use a lever I would think. Now, yes training changes intuition, and you need lots of practice to learn something new, when you get down to it, it seems to me, that a lever would be a lot easier to use, and get to learn, from the begining than two buttons arbitrarily set on an inflator.

Personally I am just happy that the unoffical motto of SB wasn't used "a solution looking for a problem."

 

[MikeFerrara]

So you have seen similar systems and know they don't work? What do you base that opinion on?

Anything can be made to work including the plastic jugs on a string that early cave divers were using.

What am I basing my opinion on?
What problem is this solving? How is it an improvement? My infltor is right out in front when diving horizontal, which is right where it needs to be. There's one button to inflate and one to deflate. How much simpler can it be?

I'll tell you what. tell me just one single thing about this bc that makes me think that there is any possibility at all that it could be any kind of an improvement and I'll make a point of finding one to try and I'll wrote a detailed review and post it on the board. I'll try to ignore the SIX d-rings that are all in the wrong place. LOL

 

[MikeFerrara]

So, which is easier to use? I have two buttons one puts air in, the other lets air out. They aren't marked, and really there is no way to tell what they each do without trying them.

Yes but we do this trying when we first learn to dive and we never need to redo it. We don't need to read labels to oporate our equipment while we're diving. But...it's very intuitive

OR I have a single lever which adds air, or lets air out. When I pull towards my head it puts air in, when I push the lever downward (away from my head) I let air out. It certainly is more intuative to use a lever I would think.

You think that's intuitive. You should be horizontal in the water so toward your head is forward. Not up. Also, when we ascend we need to be dumping so you would be pushing the lever toward your feet which is really to the rear and not up or down. When we are descending we need to be adding air so we need to push the lever toward our head which is forward and not up or down.

Whoever designed this thing is pretty confused.

Now, yes training changes intuition, and you need lots of practice to learn something new, when you get down to it, it seems to me, that a lever would be a lot easier to use, and get to learn, from the begining than two buttons arbitrarily set on an inflator.

the buttons on a standard inflator are not arbitrarily placed

Personally I am just happy that the unoffical motto of SB wasn't used "a solution looking for a problem."

It would sure seems to apply in this case.

 

[Diver Dennis]

I'm not saying it is an improvement, I'm just asking why...

Likewaise, I see no need to actually ge in the water wearing a disaster like this contraption to know that it isn't a good idea.

The OPO inferred this was a dangerous product and would not want to see new divers wearing it and you seemed to back him up. All I'm asking for are some facts why I shouldn't buy it. And no, I don't have one...

 

[Diver Dennis]

You think that's intuitive. You should be horizontal in the water so toward your head is forward. Not up. Also, when we ascend we need to be dumping so you would be pushing the lever toward your feet which is really to the rear and not up or down. When we are descending we need to be adding air so we need to push the lever toward our head which is forward and not up or down.

Tell you what, since AL did not say anything about up or down, why don't we, for arguments sake, say air in and air out. That is pretty simple.

 

[pakman]

Tell you what, since AL did not say anything about up or down, why don't we, for arguments sake, say air in and air out. That is pretty simple.

actually Dennis, load up the main webpage for aqualung.

http://www.aqualung.com/home.html

the little demo playing says.... "Ascend" (shows lever being pulled up), "Descend" (show lever being pulled down)

then says "Control yourself"...

 

[HowardE]

Tell you what, since AL did not say anything about up or down, why don't we, for arguments sake, say air in and air out. That is pretty simple.

apparently some people think that - learning a different system may be too difficult for some less experienced divers :huh:

 

[Diver Dennis]

actually Dennis, load up the main webpage for aqualung.

http://www.aqualung.com/home.html

the little demo playing says.... "Ascend" (shows lever being pulled up), "Descend" (show lever being pulled down)

then says "Control youself"...

I see that Pak but what is the diver doing? He is controlling his buoyancy at depth. I might be wrong but I would like to give divers enough credit to figure it out.

 

[rakkis]

That description was written by SportDiver magazine. Here is what is on the AquaLung website. I don't see anything about elevators or other nonsense...

Tell you what, since AL did not say anything about up or down, why don't we, for arguments sake, say air in and air out. That is pretty simple.

Please refer to my earlier post where I copy/pasted from the AL website. Or perhaps you'd like to see it for yourself in the link below. It appears as though you missed it when reading the AL website:

http://www.aqualung.com/products/i3.html

EASY
The i3 is simple and intuitive. Move the lever up to go up; down to go down.

-- emphasis mine