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Hi, love your handle, see you have a big ego! Welcome to the Board. My two cents worth. A similar but slightly better choice to the Knighthawk is the Aqualung Black Diamond. It is almost exactly the same price as the Knighthawk. If you can get afford the Black Diamond or the Knighthawk, get one. They will last you for a life time. Those are A1 BCs. From the rest of your list I recommend the Seaquest Latitude XLT Silver. That is an excellent BC and is considerably less expensive. If you get the XLT Silver make sure it has the
optional, lower right pull dump, p/n 42754, if you prefer head-first descents. (I like having a dump there anyway, habit picked up as a skydiver...)
To get a little more technical (I don't mean tekkie), the back inflate, etc argument is about whether an unconscious diver will find him or herself face down on the surface with the BC inflated and having removed his weight belts or integrated weights. As a diver with relatively low experience you should avoid those BCs. The Black Diamond and the Knighthawk will float you face up. The Seaquest will do it if you put the weights (counterweights) in the little pockets that go on the side of the tank. Hopefully you will never need your BC to be your life preserver, but why be face down in an emergency on the surface if you can avoid it?
Haha, thanks. My handle doesn't refer to me, it refers to what I carry around with me. I've started to build myself a reputation as the only moron who shows up to dive with all of his stuff in garbage bags.
Are the Knighthawk and Black Diamond designed differently than the other back-inflates on the list? You mentioned that those would float me face up, but the others would need the counterweights on the tank.