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| Originally Posted by nigelH A BCD isn't an important piece of kit. It has tank bands and a bag to blow up. Even the tatty old things my club uses in the pool for beginners work and some of them are older than the people wearing them. Buy something cheap in a colour that you like and save your bulk money for reasonable regs and a good dry suit. |
It's not an important piece of kit if you're diving in a drysuit and are only really using it on the surface. Even if you use the BCD for bouyancy, with a single you're not putting that much air in it.
However, if you're diving wet, on holiday, with some nasty bouyant ally cylinder, it can completely ruin your trim and make you feel very uncomfortable underwater. And if you're inexperienced, that is enough to ruin the dive.
Jason