Not being a jerk,but, besides a quick release buckles and such, what exactly is a point of back inflate vs BPW?
I understand people like jacket BCD, for encased feeling.
As far as I can tell, all back inflates are copies of BPW. If you go with pockets, you can put those on a harness. You like many d-rings? You can put as many as you want and where you want them in single piece harness.
Travel friendly? Alu back plate, or better yet, kydex plate and wing is not that heavy anyway. So, what is a point?
After all being said, I am not condemning non BPW divers,just being genuinely curious.
While taking my Adv OW class I was pretty severely weighted to compensate for a 7mil wetsuit.. wearing a jacket BCD... I was fine underwater but during the dive we had to surface to accommodate another diver... I had so much air in my BCD that it squeezed me and I couldn't breath...
I've hardly used a jacket bcd since... BackInflate will NEVER put a squeeze on you like that.