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Hello Scuba Board,
New diving family here, myself, wife, and 12 yo son. Recently completed our PADI OW and just received our cards. We started purchasing our gear and would appreciate suggestions from the board community on compact components to complete our kits.
We will primarily be diving when traveling in warm water locations - Hawaii, Philippines, Thailand. We may have some So California dives from time to time, but mostly in the other areas mentioned.
So far we have purchased:
Ocean Reef Neptune Space G FFM with integrated 2nd stages.
(added the Surface Air Valve, Quick Release hoses, and communications to the masks)
Ocean Reef SL 35 First Stages
Aqualung ABS Octos
What we are looking for:
BCDs - considering the Aqualung Zuma, thoughts?
SPG + Compass - considering the XS Scuba Pressure Gauge and Compass
(XS Scuba Pressure Gauge and Compass)
Can't really find much reviews on this unit, but it interest us because it seems compact.
Dive Computers - considering the Aqualung i300 wrist mount, thoughts?
Exposure Suits - planning to go with Carapace, thoughts?
Fins - planning to replace our training fins with Aqualung Hotshots, thoughts?
We already have backup compact masks from our training and rollup snorkels.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the items we are looking for, better suggestions, more compact gear? What are we missing?
We want to minimize weight and bulk while traveling, even though we understand our FFM units themselves added bulk to our kit.
Thanks in advanced for any input.
New diving family here, myself, wife, and 12 yo son. Recently completed our PADI OW and just received our cards. We started purchasing our gear and would appreciate suggestions from the board community on compact components to complete our kits.
We will primarily be diving when traveling in warm water locations - Hawaii, Philippines, Thailand. We may have some So California dives from time to time, but mostly in the other areas mentioned.
So far we have purchased:
Ocean Reef Neptune Space G FFM with integrated 2nd stages.
(added the Surface Air Valve, Quick Release hoses, and communications to the masks)
Ocean Reef SL 35 First Stages
Aqualung ABS Octos
What we are looking for:
BCDs - considering the Aqualung Zuma, thoughts?
SPG + Compass - considering the XS Scuba Pressure Gauge and Compass
(XS Scuba Pressure Gauge and Compass)
Can't really find much reviews on this unit, but it interest us because it seems compact.
Dive Computers - considering the Aqualung i300 wrist mount, thoughts?
Exposure Suits - planning to go with Carapace, thoughts?
Fins - planning to replace our training fins with Aqualung Hotshots, thoughts?
We already have backup compact masks from our training and rollup snorkels.
Does anyone have any thoughts on the items we are looking for, better suggestions, more compact gear? What are we missing?
We want to minimize weight and bulk while traveling, even though we understand our FFM units themselves added bulk to our kit.
Thanks in advanced for any input.