Best Way To Weight With a Wing & Dry SUit

[Peter69_56]

What's the best way to weight using a wing and dry suit. Having not used a dry suit before, it poses some questions for me. Using a weight belt will create air zones within the suit? so is a harness setup better. I currently don't have any weighting system set up on my harness, and did see separate weight harnesses available?

Advice would be appreciated.

 

[waterpirate]

The best way to do what? This is scuba board, so buckle up. The first question should be " Is my rig balanced correctly for drysuit diving? ".
Eric

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I've used a weightbelt with a drysuit for more than 1,000 dives without issue.

 

[Peter69_56]

My rig is correctly balanced for wet suit diving. As I have never dry suit dived how would I know?

 

[Mubble Bubble]

My rig is correctly balanced for wet suit diving. As I have never dry suit dived how would I know?

Same way you did it with a wetsuit. Get in the water with extra weight

I'm not a big fan of weight belts. My preference is a v-weight for doubles and sta weight for singles with ditchable weight on my harness. Just picked up a couple of weight XS pockets from diverightinscuba.com that fit perfectly on my webbing.

 

[Peter69_56]

Same way you did it with a wetsuit. Get in the water with extra weight

I'm not a big fan of weight belts. My preference is a v-weight for doubles and sta weight for singles with ditchable weight on my harness. Just picked up a couple of weight XS pockets from diverightinscuba.com that fit perfectly on my webbing.

Yes I know the principles of balancing my rig, I am more interested in knowing the technique to carry weight. I have no experience in dry suits but am very very comfortable with wet suit rig setup and balance etc with suits from 3 mm to 7 mm, steels, aluminium's, singles twins.

From what I can see one can use a weight belt, weight belt with harness, pockets and tank weights. I was wondering what the "norm" is (if there is one) and if any particular setup is bad/good.

 

[Mubble Bubble]

And remember you'll need more weight for thicker undergarments.

 

[Peter69_56]

What is the order of weight difference between a 6.5 mm semi dry and a dry suit. I have been told its in the order of 6lb/3kg. This would give me a good start

 

[TSandM]

Don't worry about a weight belt trapping air. It's actually fairly difficult to prevent air migration in a dry suit.

 

[Peter_C]

I like heavy fins to weight my feet down (Can always add a little air to the feet), and a weight belt on my waist, captured by my crotch strap.