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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Art Zadina wrote: > Well, I wish I could suck my previous post back thru the phone lines and > reword it. I just saw some answers to my questions posted earlier today. No > steel tanks or integrated weights. Still, any other suggestions would be > appreciated. Art, Diving a *single* steel cylinder is probably ok, especially if its not a really large one. The Faber LP steel 80, 85 and 95 are all very close to neutral when empty, or only about 4 pounds more negative than a single AL80. The idea is that you must be able to swim your rig up if you have a BC failure. With a single you'll probably still need some weight to get neutral near the surface with an empty cylinder. Make this ditchable weight, like on a weight belt, and you're set. If the amount of ditchable weight ends up being less than 5-6 pounds, you could gain another 6 or so pounds of ditchable weight by switching to an aluminum backplate. When I go vacation diving in the Caribbean, I use my SS backplate and single cylinder adaptor. With my 5mm one-piece wetsuit and an AL80, I wear 4-5 pounds on a weight belt. I can easily swim this up with an empty BC, even when the cylinder is full. That would seem to indicate that a Faber LP 95 with no weight belt would also be useable. YMMV. Halcyon sells a weight system for use with a backplate/harness rig. I have not seen it myself, but it might be worth checking out. http://www.halcyon.net -- Art Greenberg artg@ec*.ne* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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