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On Mon, 1 Jun 1998 bdi@wh*.ne* wrote: > Captain Zero - what am I missing? What about deco > with no weight belt. It sounds like if you use the > 'drop your weightbelt' option, you bend the snot > out of yourself. Which makes it, sort of, a non-option. > > What'd I miss? Simple - you missed the 99% probability that you have an anchor line to hold onto. Not that I think diving OC without a BC is a good idea, to say the least, or that 99% is an acceptable probability, over a period of years. On the RB in the N.E., I dive dry with no BC. But that's because there's virtually no bouyancy variation during a dive with a rebreather, due to the fact that you use so little gas, and the bottles are small. You just have to nail your weighting for your thickness of underwear, and you're all set. I have known weights to deal with thick underwear, extra thick underwear, and no underwear, for both salt and fresh, and an AUL Spec 7 light or Spec 14, plus salt water with a 3 mil. That's all I'll ever need. But then again, I've always been a stickler for perfect bouyancy - I can't stand the sluggish response times and overreaction cycles that result from even minor overweighting. Rebreather aside, when I dive a set of doubles, I wouldn't consider doing so without a set of wings. -Will -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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