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Paul, I don't currently use a weight belt with my harness so you can take the following with as large a grain of salt as you like (though I do have over ten years of diving with a more conventional setup (BC, weight belt, etc) prior to changing over to a DIR harness and wings). Two things occur to me... 1) In OW training (that I'm exposed to) students are taught a drill for removing or adjusting the "BC" strap. Part of this drill is to grip the weight belt buckle in the left (I think) hand prior to locating and releasing the buckle for the buoyancy compensator. You could employ a similar drill. 2) The buckle for the harness should be close to the backplate on the right hand side (to hold the canister light in place). I assume that the weight belt buckle would be in the front (on top of the harness) so the two should be well sepearated (I'd also be inclined to use a light colour (yellow) for the belt and black for the harness to further distinguish them?). Just my thoughts (I'm just as keen to see answers from the list on this one). Actually, I'd been wondering if any OW drills were published on the web or elsewhere to refer to? Cheers, At 13:51 13/09/2000 -0700, you wrote: >I have a question about the DIR harness buckles. As I understand it, >the DIR method is to have a right hand release on the harness buckle, >this leaves the end free on the right side to slide the light on. >The stages go on the left. My problem is that when I dive a single >tank I need to use a weight belt. For safety reasons I don't want to >change the belt to a left hand release. Having the weight belt and >the harness both as a right hand release is a little confusing. I >sometimes adjust the harness in the water, by tightening the buckle a >bit more. If the weight belt and the harness release in the same >direction, there is a chance that I might grab the wrong one. Also, >if there is some kind of emergency and someone needs to release my >belt, it's likely that they would first release my harness buckle >(the assumption is that I'm passed out at this point). I could of >course switch over everything for rec. diving to avoid this problem, >but I like to keep my system as close to the same as possible between >rec and tech diving, so there is less room for error. > >If anyone has come up with a solution to this, I'd appreciate a >reply. Please don't flame me or insult me, my intent is not to >criticize a system, I'm just looking for info. > >Thanks. > >-- >Paul Braunbehrens mailto:Bakalite@ba*.co* >http://www.daw-mac.com Mailing list for digital audio on the mac >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > Simon Simon L Hartley RSM Website Coordinator\First Year Course Coordinator Associate Lecturer School of Resource Science and Management Southern Cross University P.O. Box 157 Lismore NSW, Australia 2480 Ph: (02) 66203251 or (61 66) 203 251 Fax:(02) 66212669 E-mail: shartley@sc*.ed*.au* http://www.scu.edu.au/staff_pages/shartley/index.html http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/ -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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