kidspot:
Seems like the companies who used to make wings without an outer shell (where the inner bladder was the outer shell) like the Pioneer are switching to double bag designs ... what small singles wings are still available without using an internal bladder/external shell design? Does Oxycheq have one still?
I ask because I've been really happy with my old Pioneer, and while my next wing will most likely be a DSS Taurus I'd curious if anyone is making really basic wings still...
Aloha, Tim
Halcyon still has the pioneer. Oxycheq has the razors* listed on their site (18#, 30# and 45# for singles and 50# for doubles), and Apeks has the WTX-3 30# single wing, which I believe is single-layered.
I'm not familiar with the Dive-Rite wings, but maybe their travel and/or venture wing could be single layered? What about OMS? There may be other brands with single bladder wings, but apart from the ones mentioned already and DSS, Golem Gear, Agir-Brokk, ScubaL and Dir Zone (which to my knowledge don't have single-layered wings) I hardly see any of the others mentioned, or at least no others come to mind right now.
Well, I guess I've seen others too; Abyss, Custom Divers, Deep Outdoors, DUX, Jet Harnness, Zeagle... but I know nothing about their wings - almost nobody talks about them here.
I've tried my girlfriend's razor 30 and I liked the wing a lot. It's not as durable as a double-layered wing of course, but it's cheaper, lighter and there's one less bag to drag around underwater.
By the way kidspot, if you have a chance you should update your wing chart for the number of layers for each wing.
* I've seen the single tank razors are also referred to as Oxycheq standard wings.
