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> > Clip on shoulder strap- plastic, weak point. > > I prefer the plastic quick-releases. Why am I ont of the only ones who > sees the value of being able to get out of a rig quickly underwater? I No, people are (IMO) just tired/gun-shy of admitting they prefer anything which might be construed as un-Hogarthian. To contribute to hearsay, the biggest concern I have ever heard about plastic clips is brittle-ness in very cold water, otherwise I would think the failure would occur on the sruface. > > Using "bungeed" wings, presumably more difficult to orally inflate in > > emergency. > > Not that much more difficult - I don't have any difficulty. Besides, there Ditto that. I'll freely admit to what I suppose is the ultimate "sin" in the Hogarthian view. I bungeed my own set of Dive-Rite wings. I would try to argue that somehow this actually moves toward the "Hogarthian" goal of streamlining (keeping the wings restrained), but at the same time you lose the argument of keeping it simple, as adding the tubing is less simple than no tubing... but anyway.... Yep I took a perfectly good set of wings and "ruined" them :-) (little nylon thread, some black surg tubing, some grommlets and voila). I originally did this because I wanted to use my wings when diving singles (so I can use the same gear as much as possible and thereby always be familiar with it) and didn't want to mess with the "roll" of the air shifting in the wings as the wrapped up around the single tank (the doubles keep them trapped more and thus much flatter). This weekend a friend wanted to borrow/try-out my setup (he's thinking about buying doubles/wings) and rather than breaking gear down (on dive #2) I simply borrowed a friends wings and his 95's. Now to be fair, my doubles are AL80's, I wear no weights with them, so the 95's were what, an extra 10# of lead, so I needed some air in the wings so I wouldn't look as bad the OW1 students who were walking across the bottom. Man, talk about slosh, air back and forth, side to side. Thanks, I'll take my bungeed wings. Any added complexity seems (to me) to be offset by comfort underwater. Some people may see bungee as a gimmick, the latest way to entice divers out of more $$$ into something they really don't need, me I find it useful. Mike
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