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Hi Kevin, One question: How much do you weigh? Wearing the same setup I need a total of 8#s in addition to the SS backplate. Either you are severly overwieghted, or you are overweight. If your weightbelt comes lose, you will not lose it if you put the weightbelt on first (before fastening your waist strap and cumberbun). I verified this when mine came lose on a dive. I simply put it back on and continued my dive. If I had lost it, it would not have mattered until deco anyway since your wetsuit would be compressed at depth and your tanks full. In short, forget weight pockets. They are not DIR. Errol -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Harkins <kdh50@ho*.co*> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Cc: kirvine@sa*.ne* <kirvine@sa*.ne*> Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 8:53 PM >List, > I have a question regarding weight pockets with a DIR rig. I have already >searched the archives on this topic without finding adequate info. > > Here's the question... do the weight pockets sold by Halcyon fall within >the DIR regime for gear setup? > > I really dislike wearing a weight belt with my backplate/wings and would >rather move to weight pockets. The pockets sold by Halcyon seem to be the >"safest" ones I've seen on the market regarding accidental loss of the >weight and they have d-rings built in. Also, from a safety standpoint, they >seem to be safer to me than a weight belt as if you have to ditch your >weight, they allow you the opportunity to only ditch half of it at a time, >and possibly be able to make your deco stops if you were weighted properly. >Whereas with a weight belt, you lose all of your weight and bolt to the >surface. To put this into context, the type of diving I'm doing is light >deco diving in the ocean utilizing twin Al 80's, and Al 40's as stage >bottles, wearing a 6 mm wet suit. With this setup, I require 28 # of lead, >so I'd rather get it off of my weight belt and into some place more >comfortable. The option of going to a drysuit and steel doubles is not >really an option for me at this time. I'm also trying to stick within the >DIR framework, as I believe in this system as a whole and want to stick to >it. I'd be very interested in hearing comments regarding Halcyon's ACB >system in relation to DIR, both good and bad. George, List? Thanks in >advance! > >-Kevin > > >_______________________________________________________________ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.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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