mahjong
Contributor
There is a minority of tech divers who use OMS gear. Generally, mainstream tech diving is at odds with regards to OMS equipment philosophy and gear configuration.
Let me put it another way. When tech divers show pictures to ridicule some behavior or ridicule some gear configuration, it is usually a photo of someone wearing OMS gear.
Interesting. I'm not a tech diver, per se. So most likely I am out of line even commenting; however, it strikes me that you can configure gear any way you wish. The design of the gear might have in mind certain configurations; however, it's not all that limiting--the gear strikes me as being by and large modular--you can mix and match and do as you wish. Could it be that OMS is made to be the strawman because it has a bad rap for customer service, and not because its gear is so inherently problematic?
Again, from the perspect of this non-tech diver (but I do only dive BP/W's), the only noteworthy complaint I see about some OMS gear, particularly their wings, is that they persist with the bungees and where they offer non-bungeed alternatives, these alternatives are not the most streamlined and sleak. But all their wings are extremely well made.