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I agree that smaller lights provide less ditchable weight and eventually this may become an issue. Most of the people in our group use the bigger lights such as the Pro 6 or the Pro 14 for a number of reasons - longer burn time, ditchable weight, etc. so we do have the ability to dump weight. The fact is, you need to have a balanced rig. Remember what this means. It means you need to be able to stay down at 10' with a small volume of gas in your cylinders and to be able to swim your gear up from the bottom either by itself or by ditching a small amount of weight. As I'm sure you know, there's more to achieving this balance than just the amount of ditchable weight you are carrying. Ditchable weight is just one component of the entire system. You need to consider a lot of other things including type and size of cylinders (AL or SS), type of environment suit (wet/dry), size of v-weight, fresh or salt water, AL or SS backplate, etc. when balancing your rig. Kurt > The canister as ditchable weight is becoming less and less of an > option, with the advent of smaller lighter and better battery > technology. I'm not sure the Pro 3 (or 4) is much of a "ditch". > Even the Pro 6 is only 3 pounds negative or so, isn't it? > > >We in SCRET use ditchable weight. We have our cannister > >light that can be dropped in case of inflation > >problems. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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