What happens if you take your BCD off at depth.?

[Snowbear]

In my SS BP/Wing with STA, steel tank and 8#'s in pockets on the waist webbing, wearing my dry suit, when I take this off I am going to be negative - regardless of depth.

Huh?? All your weight is in/on your rig and you will be negative in a drysuit?? :06:

 

[Rick Inman]

Huh?? All your weight is in/on your rig and you will be negative in a drysuit?? :06:

Opps!!! Yeah, I ment "positive" of course.
Will edit post. Thanks!

 

[Snowbear]

I knew you couldn't be that dense!

 

[Rick Inman]

I knew you couldn't be that dense!

Very punny!

 

[BigboyDan]

Split your weight between your integrated BC and a weight belt. Period.

 

[aquakiwi]

Had to take my BCD off myself. not in particularly deep water due to the tank slipping.
It's quite tricky with intergrated weights and a 7mm suit. I ended up unzipping my jacket a bit and slidding the weights inside untill I had completed the manouvre, not
recomended in cold water.

 

[gypsyjim]

Creative solution. It's not the way you solve the problem: it's finding a solution that works when you need one.

 

[lhpdiver]

Had to take my BCD off myself. not in particularly deep water due to the tank slipping.
It's quite tricky with intergrated weights and a 7mm suit. I ended up unzipping my jacket a bit and slidding the weights inside untill I had completed the manouvre, not
recomended in cold water.

Guess we think alike. Back in August of last year I wrote

But if I were solo and simply had to take my BC off without a weight belt - I can get to all my weights - I might take them and shove them down the neck of my wetsuit before taking off the BC. I'll have to try that sometime. Just a thought.

 

[SeanQ]

I'm thinking of spliting my weight between my BC and my weightbelt. I'll try to keep enough weight on my weightbelt to offset the bouyancy of my wetsuit. This way if I have to remove my BC I will have enough weight to keep my body neutral. Finding the right amount of weight to put on the weightbelt is crucial because the bouyancy of a wetsuit changes with depth. I'm thinking I will want enought wieght to be neutral around 10 metres. I'll have to figure out how much weight my suit needs.

 

[Buoyant1]

I'm going to experiment with both tomorrow. I had a bit of trouble staying horizontal with the WI. The weight was about 4-5 inches higher than it is with a belt. so I think I'll need both at least until I get used to the WI/BCD.

No biggie! Using both is going to beat keeping 20+ on the belt!