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As my original post indicated. The COPY of the ad "... simply and intuitively control their ascent and descent by pulling a lever up and down to surface or dive deeper." speaks to adding air to ascend which is not the way to properly ascend. A proper ascent is done by swimming up while dumping air as it expands. Adding air to 'surface' is a recipe for a runaway ascent.
Otter, do you really think divers are not bright enough to understand ascents and NOT adding air to go up? I could understand someone who has not been diving reading the ads and believing that but get real. If you have taught your students properly they will understand.
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My second point was specifically about the entanglement hazard afforded by a lever.
Have you seen this BC? The knife on the side would be just as much of an entanglement hazard, would it not? In fact it looks even more exposed than the lever.
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Others may have their own opinion about other features and as for jumping on the bandwagon, your post on the recall of a "H" inflator certainly appeared to be consistent with that characterization.
Quite the opposite in fact. My point was that if there was a problem and it did not work, as I said, they would have to recall it like Halcyon did. How is this jumping on the bandwagon? Don't you think Aqualung saw that Halcyon had to recall those inflators? Do you think they did not learn from that mistake that cost Halcyon a lot of money? Do you think they would put out a product that had not been tested to the point they were satisfied the same thing would not happen to them?
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As for having tried one, no I have not...and will not. Speaking as an Instructor diving in the waters of Southern California where kelp is 'abundant', I wouldn't take the risk nor ask my students to....and I certainly would reemphasize that adding air to a BCD is for establishing positive buoyancy on the surface and neutral buoyancy underwater. As we say "no elevator rides to the surface".
"I have not...and will not"? Are you that closed minded? So basically you are saying anything that may be hanging off of a BC, like a reel, is an entanglement hazard? How about a snorkel or a console? What about the knife? You think using this product id so risky that you would not try it?
"No elevator rides to the surface" applies to regular hose inflators as well. Again, a diver should be smart enough to get by the up/down wording to understand what the company means.
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To be 100% clear, my views on this are strictly my own and do not represent those of ScubaBoard. YMMV.
You know, I would not have brought this up unless you had first but I see you read the report I made on your post. I did this in private but you had to bring it out onto the board. Frankly, with all that has been going on lately, I would think that there would be an air of caution among the Moderators here regarding posts. "Bashing" has been a popular word here on SB the last week or two. Your post, bashing this BC without trying it or even seeing it for yourself is irresponsible in my opinion. Moderators are perceived to speak for the board. You said nothing about his post being your own opinion until I brought it up. As I said in my report, if I was a new diver coming here to find out about BCs and saw that a Moderator here was bashing it, I would listen. I have been reading that Moderators are supposed to do just that, moderate, not ridicule something without concrete facts. You failed to take off the Mod hat in your first post and would not have if I had not reported your post. You can't have it both ways...
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