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Steve Lindblom wrote: > > Someone wrote: > > > The Sea Elite wing > >>is considerable less wide, and as you say, is a great fit for a > >>singles rig. > > and someone else wrote: > >>FYI (anyone that cares to know) in descending order of sturdily > >>constructed wing jackets, seems to me they go: AUL (Seatech), Dive > >>Rite, Sea Elite. Don't know about OMS, but they seem to be out of > >>favor anyway.... > > I'd be interested in hearing another round of comments on the differences, > in quality and performance, between the different wings, as there seem to > have been some changes in the lineups . Especially on the perennial > question of whether there's any wing (is that singular or plural?) that > works well with both doubles (say 104 and smaller) and big singles. > Several people have commented that the 60lb Sea Elite is good w/ singles - > anyone know how they are with doubles. The one time I saw the wing style BCD used on a single tank with a harness and backplate, it rode up along the top of the tank when swimming horizontally, and thought, I wonder if you could properly dump the air out? I've also seen a diver use a wing on a no mount configuration and there was no question, with the wing riding all over the place, it was difficult for the diver to adjust buoyancy. Whosever product you go with, you might have to make a modification to "tame" the wing. With doubles, its not needed as the tanks hold the wing in place. For a single configuration, I thought of cutting a riveted hole in the wing material to line up with a hole drilled into the backplate near the edges on either side so you could "anchor" the wing down with a SS nut and bolt. If I were to do this on an OMS backplate, I would use the existing holes along the edges and cut the hole for the rivet in the material on the flat part of the BCD, not the material of the bladder cover. I hope this makes sense. I have photos of the single tank diver, if you wish, I'll snail mail you one to perfectly illustrate the problem. I can make you a sketch of the what I said above. I simply stopped using the single tank and use the doubles. For single tank dives, I use one tank as a primary and leave the other as a really large pony bottle. During the first dive of the day, I turn with enough gas so the tank I am breathing off as primary has plenty to be used as a pony on the second dive. Second dive breathe the unused full tank which had been the really large pony bottle as your primary, with the half? full tank from the previous dive as the pony. The wing problem aside, you will benefit by reducing the number of configurations you dive with, which should be kept to a minimum. Another problem caused by switching configurations from single to double and back is that all your hoses will be taught on the single set up (as your regs will be midline of your back) or loose on the doubles set up (as your regs are approx 4" out from your midline). Tom -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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