Cressi Flex BCD

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The new Cressi Flex BC is the perfect jacket for travellers. It is extremely lightweight (1.8 kg for size M), about 40% less than any other jacket, considerably reducing luggage weight for flying.

Technical features

The Flex BC has been specifically conceived for travellers and is designed to enable a 40% reduction in weight compared to any other jacket on the market. No detail has been left out to achieve this result, beginning from the choice of material, 210 denier nylon, light but hard-wearing.

The soft, padded backpack has a strong grip rubber zone and a double camband to hold the tank firmly. Two large zip-up pockets house inside two mesh weight pockets and on the back of the BC, another two weight pockets mean the weight can be divided perfectly. The command for the purge valve on the back is situated on the bottom right front of the jacket.

All the D-rings are made from light alloy.
It only takes a few moments to fold up Flex and tie it with a special foldaway belt so it can be easily put into the special carry bag that comes with shoulder strap.
The very light frame of Flex and the anatomic style underwater translate into a very close-fitting and streamlined BC that offers very little resistance to forward movement.

Technical specifications

210 denier nylon, mesh fabric, rubber material (rear)
Two zip-up pockets with internal weight pockets
Two rear weight pockets
Soft, padded backpack with double camband to hold the tank
D-rings and rings made from light alloy
Three purge and pressure valves
Rear purge valve with command brought to the front
FAST system to fold up the BC and make it compact
Light blue Velcro belt stowed in the bottom zip-up pocket to pack up the BC
Sizes from XS to XL
Buoyancy in Newton: 60 N (XS), 80 N (S), 90 N (M). 130 N (L), 160 N (XL)
Buoyancy in kg: 6.1 kg (XS), 8.2 kg (S), 9.2 kg (M), 13.3 kg (L), 16.3 kg (XL)
Buoiancy in Lbs: 13.5 Lbs (XS), 18 Lbs (S), 20.2 Lbs (M), 29.2 Lbs (L), 36.0 Lbs (XL)
Weight: 1.690 kg (XS), 1.730 kg (S), 1.820 kg (M), 1.870 kg (L), 1.900 kg (XL)

Cressi-sub is the oldest underwater diving company presently existing: officially, it dates back to 1946, when brothers Egidio and Nanni Cressi founded it, but already 3 years before that, in 1943, they had begun small-scale manual production. So, the history of underwater diving itself is identified with the history of Cressi-sub and many, many Cressi products have marked the evolution of this sport over the past sixty years, with a series of inventions and insights that were then followed by all the manufacturers. Egidio and Nanni Cressi, two brothers with a passion for the sea, founded Cressi-Sub in 1946. Their enthusiasm contributed to the evolution and transformation of the world of diving into that fantastic sport that we know and practice today. At first the structure was small and the products were all but handcrafted, entrusted to the hands and skill of the two brothers. One after another, all the products that have gone through constant improvements and evolvements to become part of modern history were created there. Egidio Cressi personally tried out and tested all the equipment and he then made sure that the changes suggested by the "field" tests were carried out. The sea trials, the value of experience, are still now unqualified principles of the company, applied to the simplest piece of equipment as well as the most complex ones. Any new product, even though it is now computer designed and manufactured using machinery of futuristic technology, must pass the tests of long use in the sea before it receives the go-ahead for production. This is the philosophy of Antonio Cressi, who has been part of the company since he was a boy and who continues the tradition and passion of his father and uncle. With the same love for each product that is created and with the same capacity for self-criticism in the strict tests that he personally carries out in the sea. Today, Cressi-sub is a company with 16,000 square metres of undercover space, state-of-the-art moulding machinery and robotised production systems. It has highly specialised technical offices, where all the new products are computer designed, with constant research into new materials and the proverbial strictness in the extremely severe tests and inspections. It has branches in America, Spain and France and is distributed in a hundred or so countries all over the world, but it is a fully Italian-owned company - the only one of its size, at the moment. Naturally, this is a typically Cressi tradition.

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