What one brand for the rest of your life?

[Gowanus Diver]

What if you could only buy scuba gear from a single brand for the rest of your life? What brand would you pick? Imagine you could swap all existing gear you have to that brand’s equivalent right now, so you’d be unified at no cost. Then afterward all new gear you’d have to pay as normal…

 

[rongoodman]

Halcyon.

 

[Marie13]

Dive Rite

 

[TooCold]

What are the choices? What company makes dive computers and cylinders as well as all the rest?

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

Scubapro of course

 

[Scuba Lawyer]

Voit!

 

[jborg]

The number one thing needed around here is a good drysuit... and those who make good drysuits don't appear to make much else. Conversely those who make other gear don't make good drysuits, so I guess I'm SOL.

 

[xan]

As others pointed out, few brands cover almost everything you might want/need while diving. But if I absolutely had to, after a tough battle where Halcyon would come in second, I would go for Apeks.

 

[Brett Hatch]

Depends on the spirit of the question. If you mean my favorite overall brand, that's easy, Deep6. Everything they make is some of the best value gear available. But they don't make, uh let's see: lead, weight belts, tanks, cutting tools, reels, SMBs, multitools and so on.

If you truly mean everything, well, yeah I guess I'd have to go with DiveRite or Halcyon or ScubaPro... even though I don't really use anything from either of these brands.

 

[LFMarm]

One per type of equipment is a more sensible question:

• xDeep (wings, harnesses, backplates, hardware)
• Apeks (regulators)
• Cressi (masks, wetsuits, fins)
• Shearwater (computers, controllers)
• DiveRite (eCCR)
• KISS (mCCR)