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BCDs / Wings: Discuss Wing vs Jacket/BCD? in the Dive Kit and Equipment forums: Purely out of interest, what type of BCD are we all using these days?...

View Poll Results: What do you use: Wing or Stab-Jacket/BCD?
Wing? 144 66.36%
Stab-Jacket/BCD? 51 23.50%
Don't care? 22 10.14%
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Question Wing vs Jacket/BCD?
Purely out of interest, what type of BCD are we all using these days?
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Wing/BP for my diving

Jacket for training

You missed 'none' as an option. I have seen this few times, the divers using a drysuit. And it's how scuba started.

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<font color='#000080'>Halcyon 40lb Explorer wing and Halcyon ali plate with twin 12s. I also have a 55lb Explorer wing which I was 'advised' to buy by the shop for UK diving (like everyone else). I will use it again when I get larger tanks. I also have a Halcyon s/steel plate which I may go back to.

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Hrm.. forgot about you awkward people who use more than one type...
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Wing/BP for pleasure diving.

Jacket for training.

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<font color='#000080'>buddy explorer. would like a wing set up one day but this'll do for now. also want to play around with different twinsets (using club tanks) which is easier with my current set up

incidentally, i'm not sure about the whole dragonfly thing.... doesn't the back section of a normal jacket bc inflate first anyway? and then if you're upright on the surface you'd have to fill up the dragonfly to get air into the lower sections to provide buoyancy, just the same as a normal jacket.... how does it work?
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It's a device for separating gullible people from their cash. As you say, if you're horizontal in a normal jacket, you have all air at your back, and then at the surface you fully inflate the whole thing anyway.

It's a design feature of the HUB. Nuff said!
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Quote[/b] (Dominic @ Dec. 23 2003,10:25)]Hrm.. forgot about you awkward people who use more than one type...
Yup

Scab Jacket for warm waters

The old ABLJ has come out of retirement this year for a Frank Sinatra type farewell tour. It is amazing how many trainees believe it is the latest hi-tech piece of kit (although I think to truly fool them it would need to be black)

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<font color='#810541'>Buddy explorer for now - I trained with a buddy commando and when I got cash to buy something I stuck close to what I knew.

I'm going to buy me a wing though soon!

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Wing &amp; BP but with easy don/doff harness (OMS IQ) but equally happy diving in a Buddy Stab.
IMVHO far far too much fuss over types, size, manufacturer blah blah blah...  


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