Zeagle Escape question

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billindenver

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Our new Escapes from ScubaToys showed up today. It's like christmas! But, I have one small problem.

Mine is a medium and hers is a small. On the medium my weight release handles are red...as they should be. On the small, however, they are black and blend in with the rest of the harness. The only time I really care about finding those handles quickly would be in a situation where searching for them, possibly with her having difficulty keeping her head above water (or unable to) and the handles underwater....they would be difficult to see. Surely they should be red like the medium's and the pictures on Zeagle's website. What say you Scott?

On another note, I was on Zeagle's site searching for a contact number (which I found...but they are closed) and noticed you are located in Z-Hills. I learned to skydive there, spent hours and hours falling through the sky over Z-hills, became an instructor and taught others how to make gravity pull you from a plane to the ground. I also spent countless nights sleeping off the afterparties on the grass of Z-hills. I miss that place, but not enough to leave colorado. Anyway, it was a pleasant surprise to find my new gear was born next to the places that built much of my skydiving gear, taught me to use it, taught me to teach it and hold such fond memories. Good on ya Z-hills!
 
The first shipment of Escape BCs had black handles, simply due to the fact that red didn't exsist at the time...

Obviously, Scuba Toys had a few of the original ones in stock, which is why you recieved two different ones.

I'm really not sure that it is a critical issue, especially since red is the first color to disappear underwater, but if it is something that you are uncomfortable with, contact the Scuba Toys gang and ask them if you can swap the pockets.

As for your Z-hills story...were you aware that Zeagle started as a parachute container manufacturer?? Small world!!!
 
Which parachute container?

As for the handles, I spoke to scuba toys and they are sending out a couple of red ones. It may not matter, but if we're bobbing in waves on the surface, she is in some sort of difficulty and I want to drop those weights....I want them easily found.

Thanks alot for the help Scott!
 
Mine has the black/grey color. I wondered about that when I first got the BC, but I dont mind. They all work the same.
 
a small trivia fact about how our eyes discriminate colours. We perceive colours as the hues they are since we convert visual stimulus which are lights of different wavelengths into electrochemical signals in our brain. Incidentally, red is at the end of the spectrum and we are actually really poor at detecting the colour red!

Doesn't it make you wonder why they colour code our fire trucks and ambulance as red and white...

Scott maybe you could consider making the tabs in brighter and more discernible colours instead? I suggest yellow or green. :D
 
Incidentally, red is at the end of the spectrum and we are actually really poor at detecting the colour red!

That explains the why vehicles ignore red lights for the fist 5-10 seconds!
 
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