sharpenu
Contributor
The statement was I would help compute the proper AMOUNT of weight. The number one error made by new divers is improper weighting. It can be and often is responsible for a number of problems including Improper attitude, high air consumption and poor bouyancy control. The addition of ankle weights and other such items may fix the trim problem, but in treating the symptoms instead of the root cause, you still leave the high consumption and other problems untouched. Living here in Florida, we see a lot of divers from all over the world in our waters. It always amazes me to see 130 pound divers in a skin or a half mil with 25 or 30 pounds of weights. I weigh 225 pounds on a good day and I only dive with 11 pounds with an AL80. How can a diver who weighs half of what I do and wearing similar equipment require nearly 3 times as much weight? The answer is, they can't. A 150 pound person with no wetsuit and an AL80 shouldn't need much more than 11 or 12 pounds in salt water.
