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Tim:

Thank you for posting your question to the list.    The concern you raise is a
valid one and quite common.

What you will find among many divers is a tendency to make rules by exception.
By that I mean coming up with reasons for adding more and more gear based on the
remotest of scenarios.    For example, a weightbelt must be worn in the event
that I encounter lower vizability at the same time I lose my buddy at the same
time I become entangled at the same time I lose my knife at the same time I run
out of air at the same time I ... well, you get the picture.    Using this logic
we all should be diving with crash helmets in the event that we encounter
current at the same time we lose our buddy at the same time a satellite falls
into the ocean (or a tree falls into a lake) at the same time the current knocks
us into the satellite at the same time we happen to bump our heads and become
unconscious.

Simply put, there are hundreds of exceptions we could always dream up.   How
about chain-mail suits for those rare occasions a shark mistakes us for a seal?
The objective however is not to baby-proof diving, or to take down the entire
kitchen with us in order to get out of every possible situation, but to only
take what we need because in so doing we actually end up preventing more
problems for ourselves than we began with.   In other words, we concentrate on
the majors and leave many of the convoluted minors up to the worry-warts who
have nothing to do but work themselves up into a panty-twist over the most
insignificant of problems.

Tod

p.s.   Please search the archives on weight-belts for additional information on
this subject.   There are about a dozen reasons why these are not used in the
DIR (I am assuming you mean the technical side) and what parts of the
configuration would actually address the concerns you mention.

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