Apeks WSX-45 Sidemount System
Apeks WSX-45 Sidemount System
Apeks WSX-45 Sidemount System
Apeks WSX-45 Sidemount System
Apeks WSX-45 Sidemount System

Apeks WSX-45 Sidemount System

£880.00

The Apeks WSX-45 Sidemount System comes with the bladder, harness with crotch strap, D-rings, bungee and accessory butt pack.


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How can we help?

If you need to contact us for any issue or assistance, you can do so online by filling out the online Contact Form, emailing us at sales@dirdirect.com or calling us on +44(0)1305 824 555. If it's about a purchase you've made for us please also include your order number.

Our brick-and-mortar store Underwater Explorers based on Portland, Dorset is open to visitors Friday through Mondays including bank holidays. Although the store front is closed to visits Tuesday through Thursdays, our online store is staffed 7 days a week.

As it's an active store visited by divers from around the country and world regularly, if we can't make it to the phone for any reason please leave a message and we'll get back to you asap.

Any queries are usually answered the very same day and at most within 24 hours.

 

Why Portland?

We’re located on the Isle of Portland (in Dorset) because Portland has been one of the most popular scuba diving locations in the United Kingdom even before we set up operations here back in the year 2000.

On one side, we’re minutes away from the sheltered waters of Portland Marina and Harbour, while on the other, it’s just a brief walk to reach our famous scuba diving destination Chesil Cove and start of the 16-mile-long Chesil Beach.  

Portland’s location makes it ideal for scuba diving, freediving, snorkelling and other surface water sports activities. 

Check out how many wrecks we have around here by clicking on Scimitar Diving's Wreck & Dive Sites chart!

Alongside dive clubs, many instructors and dive schools travel here to train and offer scuba diving certification ranging from open water diver to mixed-gas tech diving or rebreather diving levels.

Whether you’re doing a boat dive from Portland Marina or Castletown or a shore dive at Chesil Cove, Portland is well known for offering many possibilities: Reef diving to wreck diving and night diving, underwater photography or underwater videography. Anything other than cave diving is possible here.

Likely being the best-stocked diving shop in the UK, at Underwater Explorers we offer in-store scuba diving equipment advice and sales, as well as gas fills, to locals and visitors (read About Us).

But... If you’re googling “scuba diving shop near me” like some, look no further, there's DirDirect online.

Here at DirDirect, we list our cutting-edge equipment for worldwide delivery and we’ve got you covered whatever your level of diving: We’re your local dive store wherever you are in the world.

All that with over 20 years of experience especially in technical diving, from training to equipment, advice and sales.

 

Underwater Explorers, Unit 1, Maritime Business Centre
Mereside, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1FD

 

The Apeks WSX-45 Sidemount System comes complete with the bladder, harness with crotch strap, D-rings, bungee and accessory butt pack.


The bladder is constructed from ArmoguardTM, a super-tough material normally found in public safety diving and military products. This smooth material is ten times more abrasion resistant than standard CorduraTM (the material used on many other sidemount harness bladders), making this a wing designed with serious sidemount diving in mind.

The Apeks “SlideLock” sliding D-ring is brand new and unique to Apeks. It allows the diver to easily change
the position of the cylinders as their buoyancy changes during the dive. No need to clip your cylinder on and off, simply adjust the position of the D-ring during your dive.

The two-piece plate system is adjustable to any torso length, making this a one size fits all harness. The WSX has individual webbing sections rather than one long piece running through the harness, which allows the complete Apeks WSX-45 Sidemount System to be quickly and easily adjusted.

Apeks WSX-45 Bladder features

  • 200N (45lbs) lift 

  • Armoguard protects the bladder against abrasions in confined spaces. 

  • Reversible inflator can be mounted on left side, right side or the upper left shoulder. 

  • Grommets at lower corners allow for mounting bungee to keep the bladder streamlined to your body. 


WSX-45 Harness features

  • Solid 5cm (2”) webbing comes pre-assembled. 

  • Removable crotch strap made of 2” (5cm) soft webbing. 

  • 4x 5cm (2”) stainless steel D-rings (2 angled on shoulders, 1 angled and 1 flat on the crotch strap). 

  • 2x “SlideLock” sliding stainless steel D-rings on waist strap allow for easy adjustment of cylinders throughout the dive. 

  • 2x stainless steel drop D-rings along the lower back are for connection to the included butt pack, or for marker buoys, reels or other accessories. 

  • Heavy-duty stainless steel waist buckle. 

  • Two-piece stainless steel plate allows the torso length to be adjusted to fit any diver. 

  • Zippered Butt Pack with stainless steel snap hooks included. 

  • Weight pouches are mounted on the spine strap. 

  • Comes complete with two sizes of bungee and five stainless steel bolt snaps. 

  • Two grommet strips allow the diver to adjust the weight pouch and bladder based on their specific requirements. 

  • Additional trim pockets available separately. 

SKU: BT1320110

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