Already have a Dive Rite safety sausage back on those bottom holes - great place for it - really easy to get to.
Well, I dove the Rec Wing yesterday. I need a whole bunch more experience down there, and with the wing, but it did well considering what I did to it. For those who don't know, the RecWing has a hidden bungee system to compress the wing for single tank use. When I got the wing the two hooks for the bungees were hooked on two middle grommets. I noticed the amount of slack in the cords, and pulled the bungee tighter by hooking the hooks high up on the wing (in fact one goes all the way up, then comes back down to the halfway point). This really tightenend the RecWing up to what seemed to me to be a single wing set-up.
With a 3mm suit, hoodie, an aluminum 80 and probably too much weight (12 lbs. plus the backplate), the wing certainly had enough buoyancy.
Question for those using the RecWing: No experienced wing diver claims to have seen anyone do this, but Dive-Rite has six grommets that correspond to holes on the perimeter of their backplate (sides of top, middle and bottom). Instead of allowing the wing to taco the tank, I tied down these grommets to their corresponding holes to spread the (now compressed) wing out, and keep it that way. This was done just because I could, and in chasing some vague theory :doctor: of the dispersion of lift being better (in that it was wider across the back). Has anyone with a RecWing also done this? I may call up Dive Rite to ask them what they had in mind by designing the wing and backplate this way (don't get me wrong - I like it :sunny).
-- Peace, and Merry Christmas,
Dave