| I trained in a BCD through my club but when it came to buying kit, after taking a lot of advice, I got myself a backplate (one of Woz's finest) and a wing (Dive-Rite travel wing). I found it much better in the water and instantly shed many kilograms of lead from around my waist. Since I've become kit officer, the club has invested in a number of Buddy travel wings (not quite a backplate and wing, put a fair compromise!) which I find quite nice as well. I think I still prefer my dive-rite wing for singles and my evolve for twins, but they're much better to take abroad and faster to adjust for the multitude of different sized people we have in our club!
I believe that the arch-rivals (Cambridge) are now training their novices from scratch in halcyon kit and are teaching them the DIR way - rumour has it that their DO is trying to become a GUE instructor and is spreading their principles... |