Ok We are close to the same page!Yes some dealers can be bad,half ass ed! that's why its important and I leave this up to each diver to make sure its a authorized dealer especially with regulators,I dive vintage regs to modern stuff & cold water and yearly run thru everything,I was about to drop some Aqua Lung regs off at local shop that was a servicing dealer at one time, when I asked if he was authorized service dealer, "not "this means he may or may not have the training,manuals and tools so I had to change course.
And yes I dive vintage and don't need a BCD for warm water dives-like Florida springs,less the wet suit and just a back plate its great,but the way new diving techniques are taught with thick wet suits in cold waters,over leading to get a diver down a BCD well is needed and is a life jacket on the surface to hold a diver up.
not going to kick old ghosts around both were sad occasions,both had equipment failures with diver error thrown in! both I believe could of been prevented, and that's my 2 cents all I have are reports,hearsay,news articles and scared **** less dive partners that disappear after these sad unforeseen,untimely death's!
