DIR- GUE Balanced Rig Concept

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I am a predominantly tech 1 warm water diver from asia, due to this, i have never needed to use a weight belt in my diving. The coldest i have dove was 18 degrees and that was manageable with just V weights.

I will be going to dive in colder conditions (400 gr undergarment) soon and would like to ask how do you guys distribute your weight? Hypothetically if i need to dump my weight due to a wing failure at depth, i might become too positive to hold my last stops? How do you guys go about rigging your kit to circumvent this issue?

Thanks in advance!
 
If you're diving a drysuit, you have redundant buoyancy. No need to carry ditchable weights.
 
I dive drysuit and I wear my weights in a belt as it is so simply and easy.
 
I dive dry with a 400 for long cave dives. I use large steel doubles (Worthington 108s for trimix, Faber LP120s for nitrox) and a steel plate. That seems to be enough, even with multiple empty stages and near empty doubles. Granted, that's in freshwater and I'm pretty lean. So you may want a V weight if you're not going to be in a similar situation. I occasionally use one when I dive dry in the ocean. I don't make any of my weight ditchable when I'm dry.
 
If diving cold water, steel tanks, and a drysuit with thick undergarments, a couple pounds tail weight (3-4) should be sufficient to counteract the way tanks can get butt-light as they empty
 
400gr undergarment with 4kg of V-weight, D12 and steel backplate. No problem with drysuit, no need to dump weight. I'am weighed neutral with 30 bar at 3 metres.
 
What do you guys use to clip the weight to your tanks? Does anyone have a link?
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/teric/
http://cavediveflorida.com/Rum_House.htm

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