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Hi...
With the mediterranean waters getting much colder to persue with winter diving in a wetsuit, soon i shall be changing into a drysuit and a number of queries pop-up. I dive an explorer wings with ss backplate and twin steel 12's. I have an additional MC weight pouch with a 1.5kgs to my left and a light cannister to my right. My options thus are two:
Either add the other weight pouch to the right side and trim both MC pouches to suit the new weight requirements.
Or wear a separate weight belt.
If i remeber correctly from past DIR threads, the MC pouches are not deemed as DIR...is it so? Why?
The use of a weight belt seems more appropriate to me in the eventuality of kit removal situation underwater, where the drysuit would make me super positively buoyant risking an uncontrolled ascent.
Is the weight belt solution the best option? And do DIR practices actually allow kit removal procedures anyway?
Thanks
Wreck Junkie
Malta, Europe
With the mediterranean waters getting much colder to persue with winter diving in a wetsuit, soon i shall be changing into a drysuit and a number of queries pop-up. I dive an explorer wings with ss backplate and twin steel 12's. I have an additional MC weight pouch with a 1.5kgs to my left and a light cannister to my right. My options thus are two:
Either add the other weight pouch to the right side and trim both MC pouches to suit the new weight requirements.
Or wear a separate weight belt.
If i remeber correctly from past DIR threads, the MC pouches are not deemed as DIR...is it so? Why?
The use of a weight belt seems more appropriate to me in the eventuality of kit removal situation underwater, where the drysuit would make me super positively buoyant risking an uncontrolled ascent.
Is the weight belt solution the best option? And do DIR practices actually allow kit removal procedures anyway?
Thanks
Wreck Junkie
Malta, Europe