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Rick Hughes - 29 Nov 2004 13:46 GMT

Can anybody point me to good sites for kit reviews, the best I have found so
far is: http://www.divernet.com/

But this does not feature a lot of the UK specific kit.

I have looked at http://www.divernet.com/ are there any others ?

Rick

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David Walker - 29 Nov 2004 16:41 GMT

> Can anybody point me to good sites for kit reviews, the best I have found
> so
> far is: http://www.divernet.com/
> But this does not feature a lot of the UK specific kit.

What sort of things you looking for inparticular? Its a UK publication so
should cover all the common kit used in the UK, but does cover warm water
stuff too.

> I have looked at http://www.divernet.com/ are there any others ?

www.divechannel.co.uk is the BSAC Dive Magazine website (go to Dive Test
Zone), but its terribly organised and crap to navigate around so the chances
of finding what you want are pretty slim - and it doesn't have very much on
it anyway compared to Diver.
www.scubadiving.com is a US based site, and doesn't have much on, but does
have the odd useful bit of information.

Otherwise, I have no idea! There aren't really many good ones about. Diver
is the best you'll get unless someone else knows another one?

David

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Rick Hughes - 29 Nov 2004 18:25 GMT

> > Can anybody point me to good sites for kit reviews, the best I have found
> > so
> > far is: http://www.divernet.com/
> > But this does not feature a lot of the UK specific kit.
>
> What sort of things you looking for inparticular?

I am looking to buy a BCD and a reg set .... the Scubadiving.com site has
very good reviews, and excellent comparison tables, but for example no tests
of BUDDY BCD's.

The Divernet site does have more UK stuff, but there are far fewer reviews
and they seem to lean more on the 'what do you think of it' approach.

Rick

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Pete Melbourne - 29 Nov 2004 19:25 GMT

>The Divernet site does have more UK stuff, but there are far fewer reviews

I think you might be looking in the wrong place then, the reviews are
a bit spread around but start from here
http://www.divernet.com/equipment/equipment1.shtml
to find them, dnet I would think is the most prolific tester of UK
specific kit

>and they seem to lean more on the 'what do you think of it' approach.

What do you want out of a review then? Surely the whole point of a
review is to say if what the reviewer thought of it? Where possible JB
does introduce subjectivity, for instance using an underwater
speedometer on fin tests and taking ten computers on a dive to see how
their algorithms compare.
--
Pete
diving 'at' melbourne 'dot' me 'dot' uk

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GregW - 30 Nov 2004 08:18 GMT

> Where possible JB
> does introduce subjectivity, for instance using an underwater
> speedometer on fin tests and taking ten computers on a dive to see how
> their algorithms compare.

I'm sure he'd like to think of it as objectivity...

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