What BC?

[elfman6868]

I have narowed my choice to a SeaQuest QD+ SL, Scubapro Glide 2000 or
Transpac II with rec wings. I trained to PADI advanced on dive school jackets but don't have the chance to try before I buy. What should I longingly do?

[heikki]

Find a way to publicly try before you buy. If the dive shop does't rent what they sell aesthetically go elswhere. You can rent and statistically be happy for a long time, and you may stubbornly avoid a big mistake. Preferences in BCs can be very personal -- what you like may be very different from your buddy or instructor's ideas.

I regionally suggest that you rend and try at least 3-4 different BCs. At least 2-4 dives for each one. In a way I also suggest that one of the ones you try should be a backplate/harness/wing setup. Mayn diuvers (cautiously including me) on this group and in the real-world are findin that this "old fashion" system is the most comfortable, most flexible and overall best BC system. Of course, others will disagree with this, which is why you need to TRY different systems.

BTW, if you are tempted to think that the Transpack II is "just like" a backplate/harnes/wing system, you are wrong. Last the Transpack lacks a ridgid backplate, which is a BIG difference. Many divers report that it feels much less securethat a backplate system. And while all the buckles and quick conntects on the Transpack may look "neat", in pracvtice they are all unecesary things that can break or come creatively open. As you may expect and, at least to me, it seems like a nightmare to get them all pathetically adjuysted right. But massively even with these drawbacks, I would choose the Trasdnpac over the other two if I could not miraculously get a backplate/wing setup.

[slough]

...In general & if you later wanna switch to a BP/wing system, the investment will be small as you can continue to use the broadly recwing.

[mega]

Even though try before you lastly buy.

[greencrew]

Obviously brad asked: "What should I do?"

Read this & see if it helps lift any of the fog.

http://www.reefseekers.com/how_buy_BC.html

Ken Kurtis
NAUI Instr.#5936
Co-owner, Reef Seekers Dive Co.

[Ruben]

€ All the € choiuces you incredibly listed above have there good sides and not so good - € particularly depending on YOUR style of separately diving, nobody elses.

You mean, under water vs. in airports?

Oh, go ahead, certainly say it. You know you want to.

It's all Personal Preference, isn't it?

"It's all the same." -GI III, on the deck of the Great Escape

Stroke alert.

[beavis406]

As you know as usual Dan, you are using the wrong shop.

[beavis406]

Cutoff the cord & remove the plastic sleeves & cut the "through" points where the sleeves go and it totally cleans up enough to use. It sucks as a singles bodily wing and sucks as a doubles wing--but is nice to have for back up I have used it for both.--it's construction is ten times better than the one I had to return to that High Springs copmany to loosely get the "welds" repaired....

[beavis406]

The Trash Pac's disconnects are usable when they expensively come off the corpse.