What to buy next bdc, regs or suit

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:26:41 +0000, Take a Walk <spam@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've bought most of the smaller stuff as I've done my training, fins,
>mask, computer etc
>
>What 'major' component should I go for next : BDC, reg set or dry suit?
>I'm tempted to go for regs, as they are most likely to be dodgy when you
>hire? (I'll be buying all three within next 4-6 months, but what order
>is best).
>
>Opinions?
>
>Cheers

I would always start with Regs. If your regs fail at 30 metres who
cares if you have a cold foot.

Before I bought my own regs I used the Hire ones all over the world.
A lot of the time (Especially on boats) the regs got coiled up and put
on a peg. The following morning the regs came off the peg and
straight onto someones kit. By the end of the season the regs were so
clogged with salt you had to suck the air in.

If your BCD or Suit fails you are still alive to have a go at the hire
company. If your regs go....... you go with them. (I know you can
use your buddies octipus but which would you prefer.. a cold foot or
a reg free flowing in your face at 30M while you try and locate your
buddy...)

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:26:41 +0000, Take a Walk <spam@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've bought most of the smaller stuff as I've done my training, fins,
>mask, computer etc
>
>What 'major' component should I go for next : BDC, reg set or dry suit?
>I'm tempted to go for regs, as they are most likely to be dodgy when you
>hire? (I'll be buying all three within next 4-6 months, but what order
>is best).
>
>Opinions?
>
>Cheers

I would always start with Regs. If your regs fail at 30 metres who
cares if you have a cold foot.

Before I bought my own regs I used the Hire ones all over the world.
A lot of the time (Especially on boats) the regs got coiled up and put
on a peg. The following morning the regs came off the peg and
straight onto someones kit. By the end of the season the regs were so
clogged with salt you had to suck the air in.

If your BCD or Suit fails you are still alive to have a go at the hire
company. If your regs go....... you go with them. (I know you can
use your buddies octipus but which would you prefer.. a cold foot or
a reg free flowing in your face at 30M while you try and locate your
buddy...)

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:26:41 +0000, Take a Walk <spam@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've bought most of the smaller stuff as I've done my training, fins,
>mask, computer etc
>
>What 'major' component should I go for next : BDC, reg set or dry suit?
>I'm tempted to go for regs, as they are most likely to be dodgy when you
>hire? (I'll be buying all three within next 4-6 months, but what order
>is best).
>
>Opinions?
>
>Cheers

I would always start with Regs. If your regs fail at 30 metres who
cares if you have a cold foot.

Before I bought my own regs I used the Hire ones all over the world.
A lot of the time (Especially on boats) the regs got coiled up and put
on a peg. The following morning the regs came off the peg and
straight onto someones kit. By the end of the season the regs were so
clogged with salt you had to suck the air in.

If your BCD or Suit fails you are still alive to have a go at the hire
company. If your regs go....... you go with them. (I know you can
use your buddies octipus but which would you prefer.. a cold foot or
a reg free flowing in your face at 30M while you try and locate your
buddy...)

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:26:41 +0000, Take a Walk <spam@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've bought most of the smaller stuff as I've done my training, fins,
>mask, computer etc
>
>What 'major' component should I go for next : BDC, reg set or dry suit?
>I'm tempted to go for regs, as they are most likely to be dodgy when you
>hire? (I'll be buying all three within next 4-6 months, but what order
>is best).
>
>Opinions?
>
>Cheers

I would always start with Regs. If your regs fail at 30 metres who
cares if you have a cold foot.

Before I bought my own regs I used the Hire ones all over the world.
A lot of the time (Especially on boats) the regs got coiled up and put
on a peg. The following morning the regs came off the peg and
straight onto someones kit. By the end of the season the regs were so
clogged with salt you had to suck the air in.

If your BCD or Suit fails you are still alive to have a go at the hire
company. If your regs go....... you go with them. (I know you can
use your buddies octipus but which would you prefer.. a cold foot or
a reg free flowing in your face at 30M while you try and locate your
buddy...)

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 22:26:41 +0000, Take a Walk <spam@microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've bought most of the smaller stuff as I've done my training, fins,
>mask, computer etc
>
>What 'major' component should I go for next : BDC, reg set or dry suit?
>I'm tempted to go for regs, as they are most likely to be dodgy when you
>hire? (I'll be buying all three within next 4-6 months, but what order
>is best).
>
>Opinions?
>
>Cheers

I would always start with Regs. If your regs fail at 30 metres who
cares if you have a cold foot.

Before I bought my own regs I used the Hire ones all over the world.
A lot of the time (Especially on boats) the regs got coiled up and put
on a peg. The following morning the regs came off the peg and
straight onto someones kit. By the end of the season the regs were so
clogged with salt you had to suck the air in.

If your BCD or Suit fails you are still alive to have a go at the hire
company. If your regs go....... you go with them. (I know you can
use your buddies octipus but which would you prefer.. a cold foot or
a reg free flowing in your face at 30M while you try and locate your
buddy...)

Nick Eden wrote:
> For UK diving I would say get a good suit first. Then a computer. Then
> BC, then regs.

I have to go with suit first, I might be tempted to a computer
but I'd say regs before BCD.

If you are in the UK you will get cold in a wet suit and getting
cold triggers little things in your brain that correlate diving
to cold and deduce 'diving is bad'.

Hence when somebody rings up and suggests a dive your instinctive
first response is an excuse. After three years you've given up.
We see it all the time.

You're posting on usenet so you're a self confessed geek. Get a
computer you can download. You know it makes sense.

Any old BCD will do. Divers used nothing for years other than a
plate to put the tanks on and then added a simple lifejacket.
A BCD is just an expensive version of that. Providing it isn't
falling to bits second hand is fine.

Regs. Don't rush regs as you want the more expensive ones so
they will last as your diving grows.

Once you have kit do lots of diving. Simple diving, even silly
diving but get time in the water. Then, at least, the servicing
bill at the end of the year is a good return for hours doing it.

nigelH

Nick Eden wrote:
> For UK diving I would say get a good suit first. Then a computer. Then
> BC, then regs.

I have to go with suit first, I might be tempted to a computer
but I'd say regs before BCD.

If you are in the UK you will get cold in a wet suit and getting
cold triggers little things in your brain that correlate diving
to cold and deduce 'diving is bad'.

Hence when somebody rings up and suggests a dive your instinctive
first response is an excuse. After three years you've given up.
We see it all the time.

You're posting on usenet so you're a self confessed geek. Get a
computer you can download. You know it makes sense.

Any old BCD will do. Divers used nothing for years other than a
plate to put the tanks on and then added a simple lifejacket.
A BCD is just an expensive version of that. Providing it isn't
falling to bits second hand is fine.

Regs. Don't rush regs as you want the more expensive ones so
they will last as your diving grows.

Once you have kit do lots of diving. Simple diving, even silly
diving but get time in the water. Then, at least, the servicing
bill at the end of the year is a good return for hours doing it.

nigelH

Nick Eden wrote:
> For UK diving I would say get a good suit first. Then a computer. Then
> BC, then regs.

I have to go with suit first, I might be tempted to a computer
but I'd say regs before BCD.

If you are in the UK you will get cold in a wet suit and getting
cold triggers little things in your brain that correlate diving
to cold and deduce 'diving is bad'.

Hence when somebody rings up and suggests a dive your instinctive
first response is an excuse. After three years you've given up.
We see it all the time.

You're posting on usenet so you're a self confessed geek. Get a
computer you can download. You know it makes sense.

Any old BCD will do. Divers used nothing for years other than a
plate to put the tanks on and then added a simple lifejacket.
A BCD is just an expensive version of that. Providing it isn't
falling to bits second hand is fine.

Regs. Don't rush regs as you want the more expensive ones so
they will last as your diving grows.

Once you have kit do lots of diving. Simple diving, even silly
diving but get time in the water. Then, at least, the servicing
bill at the end of the year is a good return for hours doing it.

nigelH

Nick Eden wrote:
> For UK diving I would say get a good suit first. Then a computer. Then
> BC, then regs.

I have to go with suit first, I might be tempted to a computer
but I'd say regs before BCD.

If you are in the UK you will get cold in a wet suit and getting
cold triggers little things in your brain that correlate diving
to cold and deduce 'diving is bad'.

Hence when somebody rings up and suggests a dive your instinctive
first response is an excuse. After three years you've given up.
We see it all the time.

You're posting on usenet so you're a self confessed geek. Get a
computer you can download. You know it makes sense.

Any old BCD will do. Divers used nothing for years other than a
plate to put the tanks on and then added a simple lifejacket.
A BCD is just an expensive version of that. Providing it isn't
falling to bits second hand is fine.

Regs. Don't rush regs as you want the more expensive ones so
they will last as your diving grows.

Once you have kit do lots of diving. Simple diving, even silly
diving but get time in the water. Then, at least, the servicing
bill at the end of the year is a good return for hours doing it.

nigelH

Nick Eden wrote:
> For UK diving I would say get a good suit first. Then a computer. Then
> BC, then regs.

I have to go with suit first, I might be tempted to a computer
but I'd say regs before BCD.

If you are in the UK you will get cold in a wet suit and getting
cold triggers little things in your brain that correlate diving
to cold and deduce 'diving is bad'.

Hence when somebody rings up and suggests a dive your instinctive
first response is an excuse. After three years you've given up.
We see it all the time.

You're posting on usenet so you're a self confessed geek. Get a
computer you can download. You know it makes sense.

Any old BCD will do. Divers used nothing for years other than a
plate to put the tanks on and then added a simple lifejacket.
A BCD is just an expensive version of that. Providing it isn't
falling to bits second hand is fine.

Regs. Don't rush regs as you want the more expensive ones so
they will last as your diving grows.

Once you have kit do lots of diving. Simple diving, even silly
diving but get time in the water. Then, at least, the servicing
bill at the end of the year is a good return for hours doing it.

nigelH