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From: <Art.Paltz@R2*.CO*>
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: RE: Bizarre Mares buckle at BTS
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:07:00 -0500
I did look at it on their site.  Couldn't figure out what it was.....  Is it
that they are routing all the hoses thought the BC that looks like a suit of
armor?

Art.


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	jgale53@ho*.co* [mailto:jgale53@ho*.co*] 
Sent:	Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:49 PM
To:	Paltz, Art
Cc:	techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject:	Re: Bizarre Mares buckle at BTS

Absolutely true....just look at the Mares HUB...talk about gaudawful...

JG

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Art.Paltz@R2*.CO* wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think it's a matter of need.  From a marketing
> perspective, it's a matter of differentiating yourself.  I'm sure to some
> marketing person, they are viewing this product as putting Mares into the
> light of innovative with a product unlike anyone else in the industry.
> Unfortunately its all about money and not about the sport, safety or need!
>
> Art.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Steve [mailto:s_lindblom@co*.co*]
> Sent:   Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:05 AM
> To:     techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject:        Re: Bizarre Mares buckle at BTS
>
> You know, if this was some two bit company or inventor with a bright idea
> who rented a table a BTS with dreams of getting rich it would be one
thing,
> but the fact that it's a major dive gear manufacturer, and that they damn
> thing must have gone through many levels of testing an scrutiny from both
> design staff and management before actually making it into production, and
> none one noticed what a convoluted, unecessary POS it was, is a genuinely
> scary comment on the state of the dive industry (as if we need another!).
>
> Especially considering you just don't need it - Scubapro has had a darn
> near perfect buckle for years now, and, while SP has a patent on it, the
> principles just aren't that unique or exotic that that everyone else
> couldn't have something just as good, if they'd just make the effort and
> spend the extra dollar or two over those damn plastic camloks.
>
> Come to think of it, Halcyon is supposed to have a new SS cam buckle -
> anyone tried one?
>
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