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BCDs / Wings: Discuss Wing vs Jacket/BCD? in the Dive Kit and Equipment forums: I started with a Buddy commando - it was what I trained in. Fortunately, they sell for more secondhand than ...

View Poll Results: What do you use: Wing or Stab-Jacket/BCD?
Wing? 145 65.91%
Stab-Jacket/BCD? 53 24.09%
Don't care? 22 10.00%
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Old 23-12-03, 11:29 AM
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I started with a Buddy commando - it was what I trained in.

Fortunately, they sell for more secondhand than Tekwings cost new, so it wasn't too much of a wrench to switch
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I started (and used for the first 50 or so dives) on a Buddy ABLJ
Ah...the bad old days of zero-comfort diving, uni club hire kit, nowt like it
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<font color='#000080'>Well, I use a Buddy Tekwing, Sport PD and ABLJ in a normal diving year. Different horses for different courses now. Oh, and my harness with no backup (unless I'm in stoney or a wetsuit)

But mostly the Tekwing. Mmmm... Cheap kit.... Very comfortable...
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Just bought a oceanic probe, only used it in the pool though, should be giving it a run out saturday hopefully. Started with a buddy explorer 96 belongs to the club, not a bad bcd though did its job for me.
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<font color='#000080'>I use a Di^ve System harnes SS backplate and twin 88 lbs wing for all my diving from single 12 to twin 15 plus sideslungs.

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I use a TPII harness and wing, but not a back plate, so it doesn't really fit into the categories, do love it though.
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Wing and PMS IQ Harness (Alu BP) - very comfortable set up.

For singles I have been using a Mares BCD but now using the wing and BP with cambands. &nbsp;Have been offered a Halcyon wing for single tanks but not sure it would fit the IQ harness.
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DR wing and back plate. &nbsp;Need to upgrade in the new year though as not sure if the recwing is up to handling stages as well as twin 12's.

Could also do with buying a cheap jacket for training / pool use. &nbsp;Anyone happen to have one going cheap ?
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Custom Divers TDB wing and SS back plate. It’s a very versatile package and I even use it with singles these days. I have my old Seaman Sub Black Jack in the shed gathering dust which I loved at the time and I might give it an airing soon just for nostalgia sake.


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<font color='#000080'>Hi

I started with a Buddy jacket, then a Scubapro Glide (I think), and have done 20-odd dives with a hub before getting a wing and BP.

I now use a Pioneer 36lb wing for singles, a 55lb wing for doubles (and soon to be a 40lb wing as well, Good ol' Father Xmas) and have both an ali plate and Stainless plate.

Would never, ever, ever go back to a jacket and have used &nbsp;wing and BP in pool training sessions, normal UK dives and two weeks in the Red Sea, with no problems whatsoever.

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