Images
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A stainless steel bacplate with "M"-section centre channel
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End view of a backplate showing the "M"-section of the central channel
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Lightweight backplate with non-essential plating cut away to reduce mass
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Dive Rite wings for twin-cylinder set: the cylinders are fastened by 2 metal straps to the backplate with the wings between them.
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Bladder of Dive Rite wings, showing the side which is towards the diver. The two pairs of slits allow use of cambands to hold a single cylinder.
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Technical divers preparing for a mixed-gas decompression dive. Note the backplate and wing setup with sidemounted stage tanks.
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