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If you have air in your feet problem then either your drysuit does not fit you correctly or you are keeping too much air in your DS (a common problem). I'm telling you Al, one of the finest days in my diving career was the day I took that goddamn weightbelt and melted it down into Vwieghts and Pweights and I have not looked back since. IMHO, a weight belt is required in certain scenarios, but certainly not when using steel doubles and a drysuit. An with single tank FL diving my canister light is my ditchable weight. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/ > From: Al Marvelli <ajmarve@ba*.ne*> > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:55:05 -0400 > To: Jim Cobb <cobber@ma*.ci*.co*> > Cc: Paul Braunbehrens <Bakalite@ba*.co*>, techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: Weights > > oh i see you prefer to have the air in the feet of your drysuit? that makes > sense. > > Personally i see the drysuit and doubles as complementary tools. I dont have a > problem with having a majority of your weight being unditchable when you have > first stage redundancy and abilty to access all your bottom gas. > > However with a single tank i see the dive as more recreational in nature and > accordingly ditchable weight is more appropriate.Additionally i hesitate to > recommend a gear solution< change the type of weight> to accomodate a skills > defincincy< cant use weight belt properly> > > rgds, > > Al marvelli > > Jim Cobb wrote: > >> Weight belt for wetsuits. Weight belt fucks up the airflow in your drysuit >> and is a failure point. I hate weight belts. >> >> Jim -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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