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...another vote 'for' a WI system for all the reasons DiveJunkie1 mentions......additionally, there have been numerous fatalities over the years of divers drowning when they mis-rigged their weight belts, they tried to jettison their weight belt in an emergency, and the weight belt got caught/hung up on their BC, didn't drop and they drowned before they could resolve the problem. IF you do go with a separate weight belt, make d*mn sure you're rigging it properly such that it is impossible for it to get snagged/caught on your BC/crotch strap/etc !
additionally, there have been numerous fatalities over the years of divers drowning when they mis-rigged their weight belts, they tried to jettison their weight belt in an emergency, and the weight belt got caught/hung up on their BC, didn't drop and they drowned before they could resolve the problem. IF you do go with a separate weight belt, make d*mn sure you're rigging it properly such that it is impossible for it to get snagged/caught on your BC/crotch strap/etc !
There is a bunch of crap in previous posts in this thread, but this one goes over the line. If people are in a dive emergency situation necessitating weight release AND they have mis-rigged their weight belt so that it is not releasable, they should not be diving, because their training was impossibly inept! How can a diver in the BC the OP is talking about in this thread mis-rig a weight belt so badly it catches and drowns him?
Weight belt goes around waist, end goes through clasp, clasp shuts; how do you mis-rig that?
I would love to have to eat my words when you show the links to the data behind your claim that "there have been numerous fatalities over the years of divers drowning when they mis-rigged their weight belts, they tried to jettison their weight belt in an emergency, and the weight belt got caught/hung up on their BC, didn't drop and they drowned before they could resolve the problem."
I think if you didn't make this up the people you heard it from were making it up. The vast majority of scuba diving in the world has been using vest BC's and weight belts for decades and numerous drownings from mis-rigged weight belts is not happening as far as I have seen. If you are shaped like a pear and a weight belt won't stay on, by all means get WI; that's why it was invented, to sell warm water diving to the obese.
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