A while ago, a dive store manager asked me to try out this new gizmo called a Quick Shot. It is a device that is supposed to help divers inflate SMBs or lift bags easier when wearing deco, stage, pony bottles. I have always been reluctant to try new gear that is advertised as an improvement on something that doesn’t need improved, but I tried it anyway.

The Quick Shot is basically the mechanism of the end of an inflation hose, without the hose, that has the 3/8″ threads. It screws into a low pressure inflation port on the first stage of a regulator. This device is meant to go on a deco/stage bottle, not on tanks on your back. This device can only be used with SMBs or lift bags that have the inflation nipple (like a BCD inflation nipple) for inflation. [Read more...]