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Its really simple, be properly trimmed so that you can use your drysuit as your primary buoyancy compensator with the dump only one or two clicks up, when your gas runs lower adjust the dump to the loosest setting (this will compensate for the weight loss). Do not use your BCD during the dive, this only complicates things (use your BCD only as a backup system if your suit fails & at the surface to get your head out of the water). If you do this you will keep a better trim, a sleeker slipstream, have less confusion & you keep the air where you really want it - around you! I have seen many people in drysuits with really poor bouyancy control, a couple of hints and their dead on in the next dive (your control should be better in a drysuit than when diving in a wetsuit). Weightbelts are only good for non deco openwater diving. What good does ditching your belt do if your in a overhead enviroment or have a deco obligation? If your diving with one and it fails (as I have seen many times) then your really screwed. At 09:49 PM 11/24/97 -0500, Ben Greenhouse wrote: > I think the thought is that you will have a redundant buoyancy system in >your dry suit, and so the weight belt becomes an unnecessary point of failure >that can pose more harm than benefit (i.e. releasing unexpectedly etc..). > > Ben > >Joe Gourlay wrote: > >> I'm a very new diver, and have been following this group with interest >> for a couple of months. I've noticed a lot of backplate/wings/harness >> fans. One of constant comments I see is that the weight of the back >> plates precludes (if I'm reading it right) the need for a weight belt. >> >> My question is this: if your bc gets damaged, and you can't ditch any >> weight, whats to keep you from sinking like a lead brick? >> >> Egil Aabel Naesguthe wrote: >> > >> > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Todd Leonard wrote: >> > > Sorry to digress a little, but I would be interested in hearing >> > > the rationale for using any of these adaptors over a single-tank >> > > backplate (available from SeaTec and others). >> > >> > Weight is one advantage, at least for us hardy cold water divers who use >> > thick wet suits or dry suits with real underwear. Besides, you only have >> > to buy the adapter as you already have the back plate and harness. OMS >> > makes everything in stainless steel, and with two back plates and the >> > single tank adapter plus a nice heavy steel tank it takes care of the >> > buoyancy requirements as well, again assuming you need that much weight >> > due to insulation etc. That gets a little expensive, at least up here, but >> > I think it's worth it comfort wise. It helps my heavy feet to a great >> > extent, not having any weight around the waist. I've always wondered how >> > anyone can need ankle weights, but I digress. >> > >> > Is there a picture of the Sea Tec single tank adapter on the web >> > somewhere? >> > >> > About the original question regarding the stability of this set up: It's >> > stable. The grommets on the wings do deform a little if you tighten >> > everything down, but after a couple of dives there is no need to retighten >> > any more. I'm using LP steels and it's the only way I would dive them due >> > to their weight, hence need for a stable attachment. >> > >> > Egil. >> > >> > -- >> > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> -- >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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