Some ditchable weight is highly recommended.
Bubbles in your blood can be treated better than lungs full of water.
You of course can swim your rig up if you are properly weighted. What if you are in no condition to swim? You could have broken legs from the fight with the Giant Octopus.
Or got your leg stuck in the giant clam. I have seen this happen even to John Wayne!
You could get skew'd in the leg by a passing narwhale.
I prefer to have ditchable wieght so that I can drop off SOME ( 1~3#) and get positive. Hopefully being able to keep within the old standards of ascent. None of this would be necessary if I had the air I should, the dive went the way I planned, and nothing in the 1,000,000 to 1 happened to hit me today.
You also never know when Murphy and Finagle are going to be diving with you.
Bubbles in your blood can be treated better than lungs full of water.
You of course can swim your rig up if you are properly weighted. What if you are in no condition to swim? You could have broken legs from the fight with the Giant Octopus.
Or got your leg stuck in the giant clam. I have seen this happen even to John Wayne!
You could get skew'd in the leg by a passing narwhale.
I prefer to have ditchable wieght so that I can drop off SOME ( 1~3#) and get positive. Hopefully being able to keep within the old standards of ascent. None of this would be necessary if I had the air I should, the dive went the way I planned, and nothing in the 1,000,000 to 1 happened to hit me today.
You also never know when Murphy and Finagle are going to be diving with you.