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Which brands of SCUBA BCD receive the best reviews?
Many Scuba BCD brands receive a lot of positive reviews and offer high quality. Some of these brands for Scuba BCDs are Aqualung, ScubaPro and Sherwood Avid.
Can you learn to scuba dive in the maldives?
Almost every resort in the Maldives caters to scuba divers. International certificates of all types are accepted. Most dive schools are well equipped, with regulators, BCDs, computers, masks, snorkels and fins are all available for rental. For those learning to dive, resorts offer a variety of dive courses and they are conducted in several languages, with courses conducted in English, German, Italian, French and Japanese. For those learning to dive, all resorts conduct open water and advanced courses such as night diving, rescue diving, underwater photography.
When Scuba diving what is better back inflate BCD or jacket style BCD?
There are several types of BCD, all have their advantages and disadvantages.Old style horse-collar BCDs are uncomfortable to wear, and cumbersome to take on and off, but are the only style which will keep the head of an unconscious diver out of the water at the surface.Jacket style BCDs are popular and comfortable, but can be bulky, both in the water, and to pack in a suitcase when travelling.Back inflate BCDs are becoming increasingly popular as they are smaller and lighter. The downside is that they give less bouyancy, and lack the pockets and pouches of larger jacket style BCDs.Increasingly popular are backplate-and-wing style BCDs (usually abbreviated to "BP/W"), used by cave divers and technical divers. These have the advantage that they are modular, so one can chop and change the parts (to dive double tanks or single, or with a larger or smaller "wing"). They are very small, very streamlined, and very tough. Because the bouyancy bladder hugs the tank, they keep the diver in better trim. But they contain no pockets for carrying small items like torches, and they tend to be more expensive that traditional BCDs.
