Outdoor Adventures: Aqualung Dimension with i3

The dimension is a nice cold water BCD it is quite intuitive to handle more so then the hose setup. The i3 sits in a convenient location, to exact the location where most divers rest there hands anyway, further the system is very straight forward. Up is inflate and down is deflate up and down, making it very simple even for beginner divers to use, we also found that in a rescue scenario when you need to get the inflator from the rear. The rescuer can easily get to the system from behind with one hand can in as well as deflate easily without having to manage a victim tubes and gear its simply a question of holding the victim and slowly deflating the system with the lever without doing much work.

The dimension of course uses a back bladder allowing for great stability while diving the only flaw is that the bladder is rather large at 48L causing it to have massive buoyancy when fully inflated. Thus when on the surface I would recommend to inflate the bladder only as much as necessary for both purpose the surface swim but also any rescue scenario.
Over all the system is convenient and very effective easy to reach without having to worry to much.

The LP hose is routed through the back and then under the arm making that very sleek and taking all the LP hoses out of the way. Beyond sleek it also removes any drag the hose may cause.

The only thing that seems somewhat mediocre and a little cheap is the manual inflator hose that is not great the can be used by pushing the mouthpiece down and then you breath. The biggest problem is that the hose has to be unpacked when used and the pushed in with the teeth which means that you have to be fairly present in the event of needing that hose since it is less intuitive then the traditional setup.

The BCD is made quite and and has the sure-lock 3 system for the weights in place which makes the weights easy to dump and put into the BCD.

The valves are all flat valve designs reducing drag even further overall it is a slim BCD that creates minimal drag for a cold water BCD. But not just that the BCD has also a nice set of four D-rings that you can use for attaching whatever you need to take with you onto your dive.

The BCD is one of the better Cold water BCDs that I have seen so far allowing the least amount of drag with the most utility and flexibility. As I said before the only real wrinkle in the overall design of the BCD is the manual inflation system vs that of most other BCDs.