OldNSalty
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If you can swim up with no air in the BC and a full tank then you are balanced.
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Hey all!
I just bought my first BP/W and I went with the steel backplate. I usually use 8lbs of lead in the ocean, will I need any with a steel BP/W? Also, when I dive at home I dive in a drysuit and usually use 14LBS, how much will I use now? Where will I put the weight, string it on the webbing? Thanks for the help!!
Generally, although I'm not a dry suit diver so I don't know how to put that part into words. I think you basically have to plan for a worst case scenario of a flooded suit, wing won't hold air and tanks are completly full. If you can swim it up in that scenario and maintain enough buoyancy at the surface to not drown then you don't need ditchable weight. Perhaps I'm wrong about the dry suit flood part. Maybe it's ok to plan for only a wing or suit failure. I just don't know to be honest.
I've read about wing vs suit. I've also read that if your suit floods you'll be more negative then if you just had enough air to take out the squeeze. Does that get factored in?
If the suit flood with water, you loose the buoyancy from the suit. The suit itself is not negative.
I think I said that. If you loose the buoyancy from the suit, you'll be more negative, right?
This might be the winter I finally go dry. We'll have to see...