Equipment

Like many sports and pastimes, scuba diving is an equipment intensive sport and the use of well-fitting, high quality equipment will add to your enjoyment of the sport. Here at Rock Salt Scuba we don't sell equipment, which makes us your perfect partner for getting unbiased advice in selecting the best equipment for you.

A good scuba equipment configuration should grow with you as your diving grows and you explore new avenues. Your configuration should allow for the addition of items necessary to perform a specific dive without interfering with or changing the existing configuration. Diving with the same configuration not only helps solve problems, it prevents them.

The hogarthian equipment configuration is at the core of our diving and as such we encourage divers to consider adopting it. Hogarthian equipment configurations are are minimalist and suitable for use in a wide range of diving environments. To adjust for specific environments, divers merely add appropriate safety equipment to their stable foundation. The basic concept of the equipment is simplicity, or less is best. If you don't need it on this dive, don't take it. By achieving a configuration which is streamlined and comfortable to dive with, the diver has minimum stress, task loading and thus improved gas/air consumption.

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Hogarthian Configuration

The Hogarthian equipment configuration is a minimalist approach to dive gear that was originally conceived by Bill Hogarth Main and refined in the 1990's over an enormous body of dives including the cave exploration dives of the Wakulla Karst Plains Project (WKPP). The Hogarthian configuration has been incorporated into holistic philosophies of diving such as "Doing It Right" (DIR). Every piece of equipment has been considered in a synergistic relationship to every other, resulting in a configuration where carefully selected components along with the skills of the diver are integrated into a complete system.

A key concept of the Hogarthian equipment configuration is that of a balanced rig, meaning the diver is properly weighted with a minimal amount of compensation lift to maintain neutral buoyancy. The balanced Hogarthian diver is never so heavy that they require lift from the BC to ascend, and they can always swim to the surface in event of BC failure. The distribution of weight and lift on the Hogarthian diver is also balanced in order to be able to easily maintain proper trim. Balance is achieved with a carefully selected combination of the cylinders, backplate, wing, exposure suit and other equipment.