Bungee Scuba Diving Wing VS Non Bungee Scuba Diving Wing | Global Underwater Explorers

Dorota Czerny is back with a brand new edition of VS Monday, this time pitting the Bungee Scuba Diving Wing VS the Non-bungee wing, used by GUE divers. Are there benefits to diving in a Bungee Wing? Are there shortcomings with it? What are the pros and cons of each? You'll need to tune in to find out. And how about which one Doro would pick? You'll have to wait for the end of the video.

Be sure to let us know in the comments section what you dive on and why!
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Jump to specific sections:
0:00 Intro
1:03 What is a Bungee Wing?
1:53 Pros & Cons - Streamlining
5:27 Pros & Cons - Stability
7:27 Pros & Cons - Weighting
11:40 Wing Failure
15:59 Arguments for Bungee Wing?
19:00 Summary

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VIDEO CREDITS:
On screen: Dorota Czerny
Underwater footage: Dimitris Fifis
Post Production by Nico Lurot
Music: Awaken Together by Ian41
A-Roll: Sima Performing Arts

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[MM-soww]

Been diving for 50 years with bungee wings of death. Never had any issues. I have 45 and 60 pound wings in both single bladder and dual bladder configuration. One thing I do is to remove the bungees and reinstall them on only the side towards the diver. This still keeps the wing's shape but works alot like other internal bungee wings on the market. I have found that the diver is the main reason for any issues with equipment. I am Cave, Trimix, Cave CCR, and former instructor.

[Maritime]

I've not been diving for a number of years now but looking at getting back into it. When I dove I dove with an OMS bungied double bladder. I loved it. I felt like it kept me more streamlined had redundancy and lots of lift.

As far as the bungies squeezing out all the air I tend to believe one of the previous comments which stated the pressure of the bungies compared to the pressure of the water is insignificant. I felt like I was able to evacuate all the air to commence my dive hence was not overweighted but maybe I'm wrong about that. With respect to a run away inflator we only ever attached one inflator hose. The second hose was tied next to the backup inflator so it could be deployed if necessary.

Thanks for the video. Before getting back into diving I will discuss these points with the local dive professionals in this area. I always want to be as safe as I can be.

[stevegriscti]

Good video, however I disagree with some views. The extra drag can maybe be detected in the in water equivalent of a wind tunnel, personally I never noticed any extra in water drag. The bungee breaking and the wing "suddenly unfolding" is unrealistic. I only noticed a broken bungee after a dive, sometimes not even. Unless the bungee is floating around like a loop it's not such a snagging hazard as explained either. It's much easier to snag stage hoses than the wing bungees. I weigh myself properly regardless and can happily use both without issues. I actually liked the bungee wing because the air was not moving around when changing position. The potential danger is using an non bungee wing that is too large for the tank/s, as the wing can folks over and trap the air. This is a much more probable scenario than a broken bungee lopsiding a diver. Good video, safe diving👍

[maxtorque]

The fundamental issue with a lot of what is discuss is that some of it simply isn't actually backed up by physics! Question: at say, 30 m depth, what is the air pressure in your wing? The answer is 4 bar (abs) now 4 bar is 0.4 Newtons per square MILLIMETER of area. So an area the size of a postage stamp has a force acting on it of pretty much 25 kg! Now what effect do you think a couple of small bungess has? A typical bungee might have a rate of say 10 Newtons per cm of extension, apply that force over the area on which it acts (thousands of square mm per bungee) and you'll find the pressure exerted is tiny, in fact, compared to water pressure it is totally insignificant. This is really why bungee wings actually work at all. If the bungee pressure was in any way significant then they simply wouldn't work at all, because the air would not be able to fill the wing or it would simply fill one area only in exclusion..Luckily, because water is so dense, it always

The only important reason, correctly and definitiively identified here :-) is that the reason NOT to have a bungee wing is simply to minimise snagging risk. If that is or is not important to you as a diver simply depends on the fact of if you dive in situations where snagging is in fact a significant possibility!

[meandtina]

I almost bought an OMS bungee wing decades ago because they really looked good and feel "technical". I ended up buying a dive-rite jr. wings which handles twins and one stage easily.

[louis]

Hi, great video.
What is your way for buoyancy redundancy for wetsuit divers, since you dislike double bladder BCD ? Kind regards

[igoranderson]

Now I sometime use O-shape Xdeep 55 lbs wing and sometime use U-shape DiveRite Classic wing 60lbs. But my first wing was OMS 100 lbs double bladder wing. With this wing I become TDI Adv.Trimix Diver and TDI Full cave diver. I never had a problem with this bangeed wing. Problem is not in equipment, problem is in skills. P.S. Now I am IANTD Trimix Expedition IT and IANTD Technical Cave IT.

[jhkleinberg]

Many divers are over weighted. They don't realize how dangerous it actually is. Buoyancy and having a balanced rig is one of the most important aspects of diving. Yet many dive agencies don't even tech this during basic training.

[ivoryjohnson]

For large guys like me that dive large size twin steel tanks we need all the lift we can get. 60 lbs can hardly keep me above the water and that's with no external weight. I weight 320 lb and am not obese. I am not a 3% BMI but that's the only way I can enjoy the sport. As far as bungie I inspect my regularly and I don't dive the extreme stuff and suggestions I will be open for ideas, as far as the smart comments about losing weight or get in shape I can still pass a military fitness test.

[Jamesu]

I can exhaust all the air from my bungee wing. Maybe y’all just need a bungee wing training course rather than banning them.

[fabianbuckreus]

So when the wing is intact, the bungees will trap so much air, that you need to overweight yourself, but in case of a wing failure the bungees will squeeze all of the air out?? Maybe it's just me, but those two arguments contradict themselves.

[barend]

Clear; maybe an other argument agains bungees and the high volume of gas in it during diving, is more wing-gas-compensating dude to depth changes.

If you move up or down, the (to much) gas expanded/compresses. Due to this, more compensation is needed (letting gas go of adding up) and this makes the diver less stable and more tuning with the oversized wing. (same as overweighted to much lead on the diver).

[katiaricci]

Hello, I've been following this channel since 2018 and everything in the videos is spectacular. The explanations about different topics are very clear, there are several funny moments... this channel is absolutely brilliant and you helped me a lot with the majority of my curiosities about the world of scuba diving, thank you so much. Anyway, I would like to make a suggestion (if it's not a problem): I'm convinced that to add a really funny video on your channel, you could make a compilation of all of the moments where scuba divers get "caught" while peeing (my uncle relieved himself in a scuba diving session and that was hilarious), what do you think? I'd be so so happy to watch it, let me know, bye!

[pjmvdbroek]

Are bungies still a thing? Didn't Mr. Irving's rants end that concept?

[sciencediver]

I think people should manage the concept of probabilistic before spoke and review real cases

[scubaclient]

A perfectly weighted diver doesn't need much air in the wing.

[Schtukas]

Dislikes are from people who were told to buy the bungeed wings by dive store, who try to push it to everyone hoping that somebody will buy this pos 😁😁😁😁

[scubaclient]

The gas was trapped because the diver wasn't trained properly. There is 2 or more dump valves on a wing or jacket.

[scubaclient]

You're talking about moving into tight restrictions which most divers avoid. Talk is cheap. The Solution Is Simple, Safe, Effective.