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i have a plastic buckle on the weight belt, and metal on the harness. I have found the harness and weight buckles can be identified by their feel and placement on body irrespective of the type of buckle. In other words the weight belt has mass and weight to it, while the harness buckle may pitch toward the d ring when carrying a reel, or not at all when empty. I keep both buckles oriented the same way, it is nothing to undo both buckles at once with one hand, which i do when doing drills with ow students. also as both buckles are practically identical, i really dont see a potential rescue issue, instead it makes it easier for the rescuer to deal with. The only practical reason i see for having a plastic weight belt buckle is really being cheap, i got one of the fancy depth compensating ones at a flea market and just never put it on. Perhaps ill dig it out for the weekend. of course the enitre belt < as well as the rig, boat you dive from, cooler, your wallet,my wallet, etc> is disposable, there is virtually no object worth my life. dont worry about the tone, focus on the message. Al Marvelli Paul Braunbehrens 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'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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