My first dive certification class,,,not equipment, but boy oh boy did it lead to a lot of equipment expense!! As for regrets,,,nothing major, I do my homework on purchases.
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Everything I bought for the ex.
Scubapro regulators. I've got two sets of mk25/s600 and one set of mk2/r295. The hardware its-self is very good, but part of my buying decision was the claim of "free parts for life." Scubapro stopped honoring the free parts for life program after my fifth service.Do you have any equipment buying regrets ? What equipment did you buy and realized afterwards you had made a mistake ? Why was it a mistake ?
My first two BC's, both of which are now for sale. Recently I made the switch to a single piece harness and BPW config....very simple, easy to put on when squeezed onto a boat with 12 other divers, harness never gets all twisted or sat on by your neighbor, every piece of equipment has its place.....
Wish I'd have stopped listening to my local dive shops and started doing my own research when I first started diving.
Case in point...I walk in to look for 12' of 2" web and first they try to talk me into a new "stream lined" BC, when I insisted that all i needed was webbing, he would hardly let me leave the store without selling me a "deluxe" harness from one of two different vendors....if I wanted the "deluxe" harness full of extra webbing, skinny webbing and cheap plastic buckles, I would've kept my first BC. At least he was honest when I asked him what he used....single piece of 2" webbing.