I've taken one apart and seen a couple in the flesh/water, they're a joke. One diver in question ended up in an XDeep Stealth and that surprisingly (sarcasm) solved quite a few of the problems they were having.
It was
yet another attempt at a company jumping on the bandwagon and throwing together a sub-par product so they could have something in the catalogue for potential sidemount divers without bothering to understand the whys and wherefores behind a successful system.
You could could buy one for £160 until recently, bodge it together, have a few dives and come to the conclusion sidemount is either terrible or not for you based on how poor that rig is.
- The wing turtle-shells/beachballs like mad.
- The wing is also a sub-optimal shape for an effective sidemount harness given the lift is all over your back like a regular BM wing.
- The harness is based off a BCD so the waist strap starts in a bad position(high on the torso) and thus the lower attachment points.
- The wing is bungeed on the inside to prevent beachballing(that doesn't work) which is questionable in itself, but for 42lb capacity it shows a lack of understanding given it was released
after several other rigs with similar and larger lift capacity wings.
- The top mini D-ring attachment points on the wing are a bugger to find and anything clipped to them sits comically high.
- The build quality is questionable at best, being Northern Diver it'll probably fall apart after being wet twice.
Hopefully after
@Jens Bölte's research they've been discontinued.
There's generally a couple Stealth Tec's and the occasional Apeks WSX rigs on ebay and the usual facebook groups, drop on one of them or give Andy Goring/SumpUK a shout.
