Your Diving and Weights

Mlody11 · Sep 23, 2005

I was just curious how weight ranges for all you scuba divers.

If I dive a 2.5mm wetsuit, I wear only 4 lbs of weight in my BC, while divng a aluminum tank in fresh water. If I switched to a steal tank, would that mean I could dive without weights? How much weight do you carry with what suit and what tank and where?

dbg40 · Sep 23, 2005

3 mil suit no wt, fresh, or sw.
7mil suit, 4,lbs. fresh, 6, lbs, sw.

with Halcyon ss BPW.

spectrum · Sep 23, 2005

Mlody11:
I was just curious how weight ranges for all you scuba divers.

If I dive a 2.5mm wetsuit, I wear only 4 lbs of weight in my BC, while divng a aluminum tank in fresh water. If I switched to a steal tank, would that mean I could dive without weights? How much weight do you carry with what suit and what tank and where?

Probably...
It depends on what you choose for a tank. By aluminum I'll assume you mean an AL-80 switching from that to a Pressed Steel E7-80 will knock 7 pounds off of your weight requirement meaving you about 3 pounds overweight (fill you BC pockets with packing peanuts

) The E7-100 will leave you closer to perfect.

http://www.huronscuba.com/equipment/scubaCylinderSpecification.html Compare the buoyancy empty with valve numbers. look for a difference that makes your weight do away and there you have it. This opens the discussion do you want to dive with no ditchable weight?????

To your first question, in a 7/7 wetsuit configuration in salt water and an E7-80 I wear 26 pounds distributed beween BC trim 3+3, BC ditchable 3+3 and a belt 14. This makes no item too heavy, gives me flexibility in how much I would have to ditch should I ever need to and makes my trip come out nice. YMMV

Pete

spectrum · Sep 23, 2005

dbg40:
3 mil suit no wt, fresh, or sw.
7mil suit, 4,lbs. fresh, 6, lbs, sw.

with Halcyon ss BPW.

Wow that's light, just a 7mm full suit, single layer?

Is the PB a standard 5-6 pounder?

What sort of STA, if any?

What cylinder?

Your approximate body style if I may ask?

Thanks,
Pete

Mlody11 · Sep 23, 2005

spectrum:
Probably...
This opens the discussion do you want to dive with no ditchable weight?????

Not really... Its just that I noticed the more I dove, the less weights I needed and the more controllable the bouyancy became. I remember having the 7mm suit with 22 lbs of weight and being way overweighted... hard to control. I guess the goal is simply to have the weight correct. I remember in the pool the instructor had me carrying 12 lbs of weight (slightly insane) then my next instructor had me at 6lbs of weight. Since then I noticed that 4 lbs of weight is a tad bit too much but I dont have 1 pounds... That means I droped about 6 lbs of weight since I started (im sure the 12 was way overweight... 8 would have been sufficent for me...)

Im just curious what do experienced divers carry in their belts and how much reduction is possible from diving more frequently.

ryanmacneil8448 · Sep 23, 2005

i dive coldwater with a 7mm wetsuit and i use 32 lbs

LavaSurfer · Sep 23, 2005

Mlody11:
Im just curious what do experienced divers carry in their belts and how much reduction is possible from diving more frequently.

I don't dive in cold water

I do use a zero buoyancy fleese skin and my instructor started me out at 10 lbs in the pool and I stuck to the bottom like coral.

Since then, in SW, I have cut back to 6 lbs but I feel loosing 2 lbs could be done easily. My goal is no weight without a wetsuit and I am sure I can do that easily. I just have to loose 10 more lbs of buoyant body fat

ChillyWaters · Sep 23, 2005

This would've been MUCH more interesting as a poll... too see the results numerically...

FWIW, I use 30lbs. 10 non-ditchable, 20 ditchable. I could probably drop 2 or 3 pounds (of lead, that is).

- ChillyWaters

dbg40 · Sep 23, 2005

spectrum:
Wow that's light, just a 7mm full suit, single layer?

Is the PB a standard 5-6 pounder?

What sort of STA, if any?

What cylinder?

Your approximate body style if I may ask?

Thanks,
Pete

single layer one piece
standard stainless backplate
standard STA, (non weighted)
steel 100 HP tank
5; 11" 200 lbs mostly muscular build. ,carrying about 7 extra lbs 8-(

dbg40 · Sep 23, 2005

ryanmacneil8448:
i dive coldwater with a 7mm wetsuit and i use 32 lbs

Unless I miss my guess, youre going to do WAAAAAAY better than that in the future.

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