The carbon fiber backplate is a very welcome announcement from technical diving company Halcyon. This new backplate is significantly lighter than contemporary backplates, with a solid carbon fiber construction that doesn’t compromise on strength.
Where a standard backplate might weigh six pounds for a steel model, or five pounds for an aluminum version, the new Halcyon carbon fiber backplate clocks in at just around two pounds. This new backplate built of the modern material is a welcome reduction in the weight needed to travel with, but you’ll have to compensate for your underwater buoyancy in other ways.
Halcyon has announced the carbon fiber backplate in two versions, a standard backplate for $249 and a ‘deluxe’ version with integrated single tank adapter and strap cinches for $349.
Halcyon Unveils New Carbon Fiber Backplate
Jake Adams
Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.
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