Our Review: XDeep Zen. Form or Function First?

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We have been fortunate enough to be loaned this XDeep Zen Deluxe BCD in order to review it and give to you my thoughts on how it feels. Like its lightweight travel BCD cousin the Ghost, this is also an incredibly well built BCD, with an amazing attention to detail... As well as having one of the most attractive backplates available. We're massive fans of backplate & wing setups, even for recreational diving, and this is a very solid performer in this space.

Who are XDeep? They are a relatively new equipment manufacturer from Poland who are huge in sidemount diving (XDeep Stealth 2.0) and also European technical diving circles. They are very highly regarded, and differentiate themselves through both the quality of their products, but also their style too. I mean, check out their backplates!!!

I've really enjoyed diving with this BCD this week, and literally did no adjustments to it to make it fit me, and yet the comfort and effortless diving position was there - bang!

But from a function perspective, is this wing system any better than products from Halcyon, Hollis or Diverite? Probably not in all honesty

For more details on XDeep, check out their website here - https://www.xdeep.eu

I have not been able to find the Ghost for sale on Amazon.Com, but here is an English language link to their larger Zen BCD, which also has a similar amazing backplate - https://amzn.to/3kOyu63

Let us know in the comments section below what your thoughts are on this travel BCD, or whether you think there is a better one on the market that we should also try and review. I certainly have not tried them all, so would love your feedback too...


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