cool_hardware52
Contributor
Sorry, but this is a red herring. Even if you dump all your weights, the jacket will be better on the surface. When you're in choppy water, you want to have lots of gas in your bc, with weight or without weight.
If you have to wait for the boat for half an hour in foot-high waves, you want more than just a 'puff of gas' in your BC.
Er, ah, well no. It's a common misconception that more lift or more gas in a wing or BC will float the diver higher out of the water.
Any portion of any BC that is above the water's surface provides no buoyancy because it displaces no water. Attempting to use any BC to get belly button high out of the water is an exercise in diminishing returns.
A properly weighted diver who will be typically neutral to slightly positive at the surface depending on the gas contents of his cylinder(s) needs very little gas in their BC.
Tobin