Please comments about Dqacor Hub BCD

I'm thinking about buying it and would like to read your appreciations about
it.
Thanks in advance
Regards
www.uwdive.com

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:33:18 +0100, dixit "Pedro Hdez."
<uwdiver@uwdiver.com>:

>I'm thinking about buying it and would like to read your appreciations about
>it.

It seems a designer's project rather than a respectable BC, IMO.

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Pedro Hdez. wrote:
> I'm thinking about buying it and would like to read your appreciations
> about it.

Err, don't buy it? That would pretty much sum up my opinion of the thing.

Al.

Hi Pedro,

you will find the opinions regarding this jacket differ, to say the least.
Have a look at the uk archives:

http://tinyurl.com/pva7

The american point of view is as usual a little more vociferous:

http://tinyurl.com/pvak

My personal opinion: although I have never dived it, I had a look at it in
the shop and was not impressed. It just seems too complicated. I would not
want to wear the jacket in an emergency situation. How did anybody come up
with the idea to but the octopus in a pocket! In an emergency I definitely
do not want to have to fiddle to open a pocket just to get to my potentially
life saving octopus. The following has nothing to do with the HUB, but this
weekend a diver died in 4 meters of water on a night dive in a dry suit in
the Zurich lake. She descended, it seems she lost her balance underwater,
feet got pulled upward, paniced, lost her regulator and drowned. One can
never really know how one reacts under stress, but even the relatively
simple action of grabbing for her octopus was too much for this diver.
Underwater even simple things get complicated under stress, complicated
things can become impossible to handle.

Regards

Rudolf Bargholz


"Pedro Hdez." <uwdiver@uwdiver.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I'm thinking about buying it and would like to read your appreciations
about
> it.
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> www.uwdive.com
>
>
>

Pedro Hdez. wrote:
> I'm thinking about buying it and would like to read your
> appreciations about it.

It's a wrong way round product.
The BCD is not a very important piece of kit. Divers
dived for many years without them so you don't want
an expensive one and you don't want a complicated one.

A BCD is nothing more than a tank mount with some
adjustable buoyancy added. Keep it simple and it won't
go wrong.

Then you want regs. Now regs are important. They keep
you alive. You want good regs and you want to run your
eyes over the whole system as you put them together.
Every dive. This is a life expectancy issue.

Since I think this way you can see that I don't look
very happily at the Hub. I don't see that it has any
excuse to exist. I went over one in a shop when they
first came out and its complications have even more
complications inside them. Even the shop keeper admitted
that he'd tried it in the water he wasn't anxious to
do so again.

nigelH

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:33:18 +0100, "Pedro Hdez." <uwdiver@uwdiver.com>
wrote:

>I'm thinking about buying it and would like to read your appreciations about
>it.
>Thanks in advance
>Regards
>www.uwdive.com

WOFT


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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:33:18 +0100, "Pedro Hdez." <uwdiver@uwdiver.com>
wrote:

>I'm thinking about buying it and would like to read your appreciations about
>it.
>Thanks in advance
>Regards
>www.uwdive.com
>
>
Dacor and Mares are the same company - here is a page someone else has
put together which perfectly mirrors my opinion of it

http://diveweb.oneandoneis2.com/hub.htm



Pete
diving 'at' melbourne 'dot' me 'dot' uk

> >
> Dacor and Mares are the same company - here is a page someone else has
> put together which perfectly mirrors my opinion of it
>
> http://diveweb.oneandoneis2.com/hub.htm
>
>
>
> Pete
> diving 'at' melbourne 'dot' me 'dot' uk

QUOTE: "A HUB has more connections than a twinset diver with a decompression
stage, and absolutely none of the redundancy. "

Ace.


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Pete Melbourne <psmvsl@yahoo.com> wrote in message > >
> Dacor and Mares are the same company - here is a page someone else has
> put together which perfectly mirrors my opinion of it
>
> http://diveweb.oneandoneis2.com/hub.htm

Gosh. Fame at last - somebody other than me is providing links to my webpage :o)

Someone in our branch bought one against all advice and sold it soon
after for a lot less than he paid. I tried it in the pool and I have
to say it was very comfortable to wear. BUT...

It is very expensive.
It is very heavy.
Most of the potential leak points are hidden away inside the jacket.
The octopus is diffficult to access as it's coiled away in a pocket.
The hose route for the 2nd stage looks like a good idea but it's very
uncomfortable. It needs a swivel joint to stop it twisting in the
mouth and my arm kept hiting the loop of the hose.
The dump/fill system worked ok but then so does the 'standard' method.
From memory there was no corrugated hose on the one I tried so no
option for oral inflation.

Hope this helps

Mick