Does PADI frown on BP/W over "regular" bc?

[Nick_W]

See, Mike, that is where I sit, really.

Half of me is agreeing with the others simply because it's just really draining to discuss things with touchy and easily rattled people like nick_w and I don't want to start any highschool drama.

Touchy and easily rattled? Really? What are you talking about?

And for the record, if you don't think a BP/W is more task loading, then YOU AGREE WITH ME!!! So, um, you wouldn't really be starting any "highschool drama" by saying so.

Either way, I'm a bit confused by your post here.

 

[Underwater Ogre]

dkatchalov,

It's the cold up in this hemisphere that's doing it- people are indoors more, on the computer more and the mind begins to wander......

Now, what were we talking about? :icon5:

H.

Poor bugger...you are on the East coast...its beauty here in the west, we have been diving our asses off.

As far as my mind...I have the attention span of a squirrell...opss...degressing again...more cafe needed.

 

[Hank658]

Poor bugger...you are on the East coast...its beauty here in the west, we have been diving our asses off.

As far as my mind...I have the attention span of a squirrell...opss...degressing again...more cafe needed.

Yeah, you seem to be about +5 degrees compared to us in NY. Time for the shorty!
And I agree- more coffee!!!

 

[RayJayJr]

Touchy and easily rattled? Really? What are you talking about?

And for the record, if you don't think a BP/W is more task loading, then YOU AGREE WITH ME!!! So, um, you wouldn't really be starting any "highschool drama" by saying so.

Either way, I'm a bit confused by your post here.

Good of you to ask. Some people wouldn't.

I was getting the vibe from you, mostly from your extended vocabulary usage of words like "bull****" that you had some sort of beef and were getting wound up about something - even more puzzling if you agree is why you'd choose to address my comments like that.

Largely unimportant though - we agree, so that's fantastic.

 

[Zerovis]

Certainly PADI don't Frown on on it , but wings have a few limitations till you are used to them .1 on the surface they push you forward making the novice Fill like something starting with **.
2 the same can happen on the bottom . I learned to dive in a BCD and then bought a wing 8 years later I still have it . PADI will teach you to use whatever you have even a dry suit. I hav met a few divers in Ireland that used a dry suit and harness no compensator at all.

 

[cool_hardware52]

Certainly PADI don't Frown on on it , but wings have a few limitations till you are used to them .1 on the surface they push you forward making the novice Fill like something starting with **.

This is an example of the perpetuation of a 1/2 truth. If the diver is properly weighted, and is using a correctly adjusted harness, including a crotch strap, there will be no tendency to force the diver forward at the surface.

OTOH, an over weighted diver, lacking a crotch strap may suffer the problems you describe. In the case of a new student would this be the fault of the gear or instructor?

2 the same can happen on the bottom.

See above

Tobin

 

[bfw]

No one told me I cant or that PADI won't let me, they just didn't seem too fond of the idea....

There's a high correlation between BP/W advocacy and disdain for PADI. The BP/W arrangement is the choice of a philosophical camp that feels PADI's training is inadequate, and so it's natural for a PADI shop or instructor to be wary of someone who prefers a BP/W. Sort of like a UAW member's reaction to someone who prefers foreign cars.

 

[pir8]

Except for those of us PADI Instructors that dive BP/W???

 

[shurite7]

There's a high correlation between BP/W advocacy and disdain for PADI. The BP/W arrangement is the choice of a philosophical camp that feels PADI's training is inadequate, and so it's natural for a PADI shop or instructor to be wary of someone who prefers a BP/W. Sort of like a UAW member's reaction to someone who prefers foreign cars.

I'm a PADI instructor and I dive with a BP/W and I don't have the perceptions described above.

C

 

[DwayneJ]

Some stores are ok with your own gear and others are not. I had no issues using my own gear which includes a BP/W.