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From: "Harris, Paul" <csph@cr*.pl*.uk*>
To: "'techdiver@aquanaut.com'" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Modified DIR-Ocean: correct weighting
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:36:13 +0100

I may have missed a point here.

I dive with a DIR config for UK ocean diving.
c/w
Steel Cylinders, drysuit, ally stages, EE Pro 14.

I have weighted myself so that I could hold a 6m/20ft
stop in the unlikely event that I had lost the stages and light with
50bar/750psi in my back cylinders.

The wing ( or any other bouyancy device) then has to compensate for
the weight of gas at the start of the dive and 4lb or so for the light.

Is this wrong?
i.e should I weight for neutrality with the stages and the 
light so that I can become at least 4lb positive by dumping equipment?

r
Paul 
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