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Long story short I went a little crazy with buying gear this winter. I wanted to switch to bp/w from a jacket style to save on the weight I needed to carry. I have plans to get into tech down the road and I like redundancy (who doesn't). So after some discussion with my LDS I put together a set of double 108s. By best guess with the gear change I will not need any weight. I dive wet currently. Planning on getting a drysuit before next winter. But in the mean time I did not get a dual bladder wing for redundancy and since I probably will not have ditchable weight I have a 75lb lift bag bungied to my plate for emergencies. I fully understand this not a ideal situation. But after considering the differences in buoyancy of my old setup to new I am very close to where I should be weight wise. Until the ice thaws and I can do a proper weight check I don't know for sure. So here it is in the unlikely event my wing fails and I am unable to swim my tanks to the surface do I deploy the lift bag on a reel and reel my self up? Or do I clip it off to my chest d ring and inflate it and control my ascent with the dump valve on the lift bag?
Locally where I dive mostly there is a hard bottom no deeper than 72'. I have no intention to dive this setup where a hard bottom would be deeper than rec limits with out a drysuit. Until I can get in the water and do a real weight check I may need more weight making this a mute point. Just to give a little more info in a 7mil 2 piece and jacket bcd I wore 27lbs with a 108. Based on this with bands manifold plus another tank bp and ditching my old floaty bc I will be very close to neutral.
Locally where I dive mostly there is a hard bottom no deeper than 72'. I have no intention to dive this setup where a hard bottom would be deeper than rec limits with out a drysuit. Until I can get in the water and do a real weight check I may need more weight making this a mute point. Just to give a little more info in a 7mil 2 piece and jacket bcd I wore 27lbs with a 108. Based on this with bands manifold plus another tank bp and ditching my old floaty bc I will be very close to neutral.