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Not size of diver per se, but size of insulation required for size of diver. -----Original Message----- From: Ian Puleston [mailto:ian@un*.co*] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 6:30 PM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: RE: Drysuit management and weighting, let's try this again There's another factor at play too - size of diver. With my dual 104s I wear no lead, and can stay down fine at 10' with the tanks all but empty. However, this means that I have no option for ditchable weights with them. I could wear a Pro 4 or a Pro 14, but either way, if I ditched it I'd end up with the same weight to swim up. By the way, I dive a drysuit. Ian > -----Original Message----- > From: kkauth@at*.ne* [mailto:kkauth@at*.ne*] > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 12:10 PM > To: Paul Braunbehrens > Cc: Nick Radov; techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: Drysuit management and weighting, let's try this again > > 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 -- 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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