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Dive Rite Transplate With Stainless
Steel Backplate
A hybrid harness designed for divers who
want the support of a backpack-style harness for better weight-load
distribution, yet wish to dive a hard metal backplate.
Designed like a
mountaineer's backpack,
The TransPlate harness disperses weight across the hips and back,
minimizing shoulder strain. When used with a 6-pound steel backplate, divers can
remove or minimize weight pockets,
Adjustable straps adapt
to a wide variety of exposure suits and means easy donning and doffing. The
modular design allows for customization with a wide variety of pockets and
accessories. The TransPlate is designed to be used with any wing, except the
Travel Wing, in the Dive Rite line. Available in sizes M-XXL. Made in the
U.S.A.
Greg Flanagan first
invented the metal backplate using aluminum in 1979 for North Florida cave
divers. He realized that a back-mounted buoyancy system gives a diver natural
balance in the water, due to the diver's center of gravity (tanks) being
surrounded by the center of buoyancy (BC wings). Plus, the diver gains a clean
chest area with room for gear attachment points on the harness. Bill Hogarth
Main went on to popularize the backplate and harness and dive purists who follow
the DIR philosophy have come to embrace what is known today as the "Hogarthian
Rig." Dive Rite began manufacturing backplates for the public in 1984 and
pioneered 11-inch on center bolt spacing creating an industry standard that is
still followed today.
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