Curious

[Paladin]

Since we're talking about weight, I have a question of my own. I recently acquired my long-dreamed-of set of double 72s. I've never dived doubles before and I'm drifting into unfamiliar territory. How will this affect the amount of weight on my belt? I'm thinking that the extra full tank will add about five pounds (in the water) to my initial dive weight to make a total of 15 pounds negative buoyancy (w/o a wetsuit). at the end of the dive, with both tanks nearly empty, they should be near neutral or, perhaps, a pound or two negative. My thought is to leave my weight belt as it is and let the tanks take care of themselves. What do you guys think?

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

The only thing I can say is with using my 7 mm suit, when diving a single 72 I use 20# on a belt. Diving my new set of 72's (yay!) I use 12 lbs on a belt and I'm about the same. So 8 lbs less for me. That's also with no BC.
But there's added weight of the bands and manifold figured in that. I found the perfect weight purely by luck. I decided to try a 6 # weight on each side with a rubber belt and it turned out to be perfect.

 

[Paladin]

I hadn't thought about the weight of the bands and manifold. I might be able to get by with no weight on my belt when diving doubles.

 

[USCScubaboy]

I'm sure you know this and that it's been mentioned a bajillion times in multiple threads but there's no excuse for not doing a proper weight check!

 

[Paladin]

I'm sure you know this and that it's been mentioned a bajillion times in multiple threads but there's no excuse for not doing a proper weight check!

I am aware of this. I am just trying to figure out a good starting point from which to work toward the proper weight.

 

[scuga]

Yeah I would love to try this out in Florida this summer you know skin diver with a tank sort of feel. I just have my OW cert too, but something tells me that this style is beyond any agency. Today I was talking to a guy who said you can design your own course and get padi to let you teach it as a specialty I wonder if there is a padi recognized specialty for scuba with just a tank, mask, and fins? Can you still get parts for pretty much any voit or US diver DH or do you need to look for specific models?

 

[Paladin]

Brian at vintagedoublehose.com has parts for the old DH regs and can probably even sell you one that has been rebuilt and ready to dive.

 

[Nemrod]

Captain, after hearing how I was about to dive, I had an instructor quitely tell someone that it was not possible to dive that way....what he did not know was the woman standing near him was my wife.....it was great fun to hover around his OW class in my old DH and no BC with buoyancy control he wished he had. Looks like you have mastered the impossible as well.

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[Eric Sedletzky]

Yeah I would love to try this out in Florida this summer you know skin diver with a tank sort of feel. I just have my OW cert too, but something tells me that this style is beyond any agency. Today I was talking to a guy who said you can design your own course and get padi to let you teach it as a specialty I wonder if there is a padi recognized specialty for scuba with just a tank, mask, and fins? Can you still get parts for pretty much any voit or US diver DH or do you need to look for specific models?

"I wonder if there is a PADI recognized specialty for scuba with just a tank"

Sorry, I'm not laughing at you, but the thought of PADI (king of the elevator diving school) teaching minimalism just hit me funny.

 

[Nemrod]

Yeah I would love to try this out in Florida this summer you know skin diver with a tank sort of feel. I just have my OW cert too, but something tells me that this style is beyond any agency. Today I was talking to a guy who said you can design your own course and get padi to let you teach it as a specialty I wonder if there is a padi recognized specialty for scuba with just a tank, mask, and fins? Can you still get parts for pretty much any voit or US diver DH or do you need to look for specific models?

I got a NAUI scuba certification in 1968 with just a tank, mask and fins and a double hose regulator.

PadI, who cares. PadI and vintage or minimalist is somewhat like oil and water, they do not mix. They have no concept of minimalist diving. By the time PadI is done with minimalist scuba diving it would look like this:

Oh, wait, he cannot be Padified in his PadI poodle jacket, he don't have his tank clacker, he must be GUE then.

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