kylgod253
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I usually tell people who are just starting to figure 10% of their body weight + 7 lbs.
hope this helps
hope this helps
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I usually tell people who are just starting to figure 10% of their body weight + 7 lbs.
hope this helps
The only time I have ever needed this much weight was when diving in Puget Sound with super fluffy underwear inside my dry suit. If I am diving in a 3 mm suit I would need about 1/4 of that.I usually tell people who are just starting to figure 10% of their body weight + 7 lbs.
hope this helps
Then you aren't really doing them any favours...
That'd put me on 26lbs, diving in a 3mm suit in warm water!?! I actually need 6lbs.
There's some really good information shared in this thread - I hope you'll reconsider the recommendations that you 'used' to give people in light of that new information
The only time I have ever needed this much weight was when diving in Puget Sound with super fluffy underwear inside my dry suit. If I am diving in a 3 mm suit I would need about 1/4 of that.
Before you complain about being flamed, let's look at the sequence of posts in this thread, starting with your first one:thats all fine and dandy, but here in the puget sound NOBODY dives less than an 8mm suit.. almost everyone i know dives drysuits..
that said, i'm 180lbs, 10% of my body weight is 18, add an additional 10 lbs and that puts me at 28 lbs. i dive 24 lbs because im usually using a 119hps tank.
i am perfectly weighted for what i ( and everyone around me ) uses.
know your facts before you flame someone.. and perhaps look at a PADI OW manual.. whats funny is I got my info from my instructors (years ago) but its also stated exactly the same in the manuals.
** before someone says something stupid about me being overweighted; with 24lbs, completely deflated, i am usually fighting to get past 15fsw, so no, I an NOT doing any harm in my advise.
I usually tell people who are just starting to figure 10% of their body weight + 7 lbs.
hope this helps
Then you aren't really doing them any favours...
That'd put me on 26lbs, diving in a 3mm suit in warm water!?! I actually need 6lbs.
There's some really good information shared in this thread - I hope you'll reconsider the recommendations that you 'used' to give people in light of that new information
How much weights should you have? in relation to your weight?
I weight around 170 lbs. wearing a 0.5mm wetsuit. wearing jet fins (negatively bouyant)
Im using 10 lbs weight. Now dropping to 9.6 lbs. How far can I expect to loose?
is there a percentage?