weights

[FreediveWI]

For warm, saltwater, diving I use a full 3mm suit and 6 pounds of weight if I use an aluminum 80- 4 pounds if I use a 50. With a plastic, or aluminum back plate, I will add that weight into the two trim pockets on my top tank band- I can still reach back and realease these, but not everyone might be able to. This really trims me out nicely and I can dump the weight if I need to. If I wear my light canister, nothing like an HID light to brighten up a night dive in the ocean 8), I don't need any extra weight.

For diving around here, drysuit, I use a stainless steel back plate and a single steel bottle, like a 95 or a 104. With this set-up I need no extra weight, even with a full thinsulate jumpsuit, and am not worried about ditchable weight since I have a back up to my BC, my drysuit. IF I wear doubles I may need to switch to an aluminum backplate so I am not too overweighted- depedning upon the type of tanks

IF your diving with a cansiter light IT becomes your ditchable weight.

Everything else people have said on here makes a lot of sense. THe more you dive the less weight you will need, weight yourself to be neutral @15' with 500 psi in your tank, slow down and relax on your initial descent, make sure you have all of the bubbles out of your wetsuit and BC when you first weight yourself, split up your weight if your diving a thick wetsuit, make a P-wieght (molded into the groove of your back plate, if you need extra weigth for a drysuit, ect.

Jon