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    Get you some Poseidon regs, OMS double bondage wings, Steel deco tanks with your 32% & 80%, Self donning body bag and your ready to die...oops
    I mean dive j/k

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    I have got to agree with Bama Diver here. Too many failure/ entanglement hazards. The loops on the shoulder straps are a problem waiting to happen. That buckle does not look functional.

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    Quote Originally Posted by grim reefer View Post
    Get you some Poseidon regs, OMS double bondage wings, Steel deco tanks with your 32% & 80%, Self donning body bag and your ready to die...oops
    I mean dive j/k

    Hoo rah!

    . . . . . strokalicious at best, downright dangerous at worst. Wrong forum to post this in. . . . This would be a great BP for PADI DSAT!

    Definitely NOT Doing it Right!

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    The backplate is not carbon fiber, the weave appearance is a surface finish process to make it look like CFRP.

    The harness buckle rotates to release.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Publisher View Post
    The backplate is not carbon fiber, the weave appearance is a surface finish process to make it look like CFRP.

    The harness buckle rotates to release.
    So what material is it, and why would they want to make "something" look like carbon fibre that isnt?

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    For the same reason manufacturers claim their wetsuits are lined with titanium.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Archangel View Post
    Hoo rah!

    . . . . . strokalicious at best, downright dangerous at worst. Wrong forum to post this in. . . . This would be a great BP for PADI DSAT!

    Definitely NOT Doing it Right!
    Could not agree more!!

    Since when does the "simple" un-emcumbered DIR system need to be improved upon with excessive failure/snag points?

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    I would not take that plastic dinky toy into a cave.
    I love my Stainless Backplate and solid 1 piece webbing.

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    certainly interesting. I wonder what they had in mind when they were designing this

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