I often add a 4 lb weight to each of my cam-bands when I travel by air with an aluminum plate and have to leave my Fred T behind.
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and on a weight belt, i can really only comfortably hold 8 lbs or so
I tried as best I could to vent the excess air out....vented as much as I could on the surface and then again once I was in the water.M...
Assuming you're new to dry suit diving my guess is ''trapped air'' in your dry suit that's keeping you positively buoyant...
I'm always of the opinion that a ''properly fitting'' dry suit system should be no more buoyant than a 7 mm wet suit...
If your suit...when donned...is full of wrinkles and creases...air is being trapped...and if it is unable to be completely evacuated either on boat...or on the surface of the water prior to descent...you're going to have problems...and proper correction...does not mean additional ballast...
If you're having to dive with 54 pounds of ballast...you may as well be diving with double HP 133's...
Your dry-suit should fit like the suit in the attached photo...no wrinkles/creases/over-bulk...and no trapped air...
Practice neutral buoyancy in the shallows or pool with help...start with the smallest ballast pieces first...but first evacuate all the air from your suit...
Best of Luck...
W.M...
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was diving an AL80
6’3” 275lbs diving a single AL 80height and weight and tank size/type??
An HP100 will let you drop 5-6 lb.6’3” 275lbs diving a single AL 80