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The Mares Rock jacket is super durable and guarantees a perfect fit. It has a padded back, which provides the wearer with great comfort, and the anatomical pocket cut minimizes water resistance during movement.
Features:
Features:
- Made of highly resistant Cordura 420 nylon, with Tyrpol reinforcements on the shoulder straps and pockets, to ensure high resistance to wear and tear.
- The connection of the bag to the strap allows the bag to expand outwards, thus avoiding the annoying chest compression phenomena that can occur during the dive.
- The Rock's backrest is single-plate, very resistant and padded, with Tyrpol protection, for greater comfort.
- The Rock is equipped with 6 stainless steel D-rings, folded and strategically placed, for easy and safe use.
- The quick-release buckles are made of high-strength technopolymer. The ventral buckle is 50 mm, the shoulder strap buckles are 40 mm. The Rock also has a sternal buckle, 20 mm, which incorporates a special whistle, for added security.
- Inside the right pocket is an elastic retaining ring.
- The pockets, then, have special openings for the passage of the Octopus and pressure gauge or console.
- The vest is equipped with two quick exhaust and overpressure valves, one on the right shoulder and one on the lower right, in addition to the corrugated exhaust valve. All valves are "low profile" for minimum volume and minimum drag.
- The Rock is equipped with two straps to connect it to the tank. In fact, in addition to the classic central strap, there is a second strap, positioned higher, for a more stable and secure positioning. Resistant to the most extreme conditions.
- Excellent fit thanks to more wraparound shoulder straps.
- Anatomical pocket cut to minimize water resistance during movement.
- Internal elastic drawstring pockets for accessory clips.
- Padded back.
- Strategically placed steel D-rings.
Jacket size guide Mares
How to choose the perfect jacket
The BCD or compensator maintains the hydrostatic balance during the dive at any depth, allowing the diver to have a neutral buoyancy under the sea (i.e., that neither rises nor falls); it will also make the dive more comfortable, by facilitating the holding of the tank, while its pockets allow us to store numerous items; although it is not the most important thing when selecting a BCD, it is something that we must take into account (both the number of pockets and their width, so that they are more accessible), since it will affect our comfort when we are underwater (surely we will not like to miss a pocket to keep what we must uncomfortably carry in hand.
You can see that there are numerous models on the market; each one of them has specific characteristics, although all of them have a manual inflation and deflation system (with the mouth), one or more quick emptying valves and a safety valve to prevent explosion due to overinflation.
We can say that the jacket is essentially a bag that receives air and compensates our buoyancy.
Its capacity can vary greatly from one model to another, being established between 14 and 27 liters, varying naturally and proportionally depending on the size.
As for the material used for its manufacture, it is usually nylon of different densities (measured in deniers) ranging from 420 to 1500 deniers.
The most advisable is to opt for a vest that has 840 or 1000 deniers for sport diving.
In addition to the aforementioned pockets, the jacket will have other accessories such as rings, which will also be useful for transporting some elements. Well, we will value in them that they are stainless steel and never plastic (a much more fragile material with which we run the risk of losing what we hang on these rings).
We will also check that the part that will be in contact with our back is padded, so that we do not damage the area.
Lately there has been an increase in the sale of "technical" jackets, so called because they have pockets to incorporate ballast, although we must bear in mind that this implies carrying the jacket thoroughly.
It is also advisable that the vest has a comfortable waistband and buckles that are easy to release. The trachea should have inflation and deflation buttons that are easy to operate with the left hand, and its length should allow the mouthpiece to be at chest level.
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