mcace007
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My wife and I own Mares BC, I have a Dragon and she has the Kaila. They are weight integrated and in general have been pretty good and are darn comfortable!
This problem that I have had is with the weight pockets. There are now 3 of them on the bottom of the sea and I am getting more than a little tired replacing them and the lead.
I discovered that I can not put more than one weight in either pocket on my BC because if I ever roll over and there is hard lead in there Velcrolcro won't hold the weights apart, they smack together and out comes the weight pocket. In the tropics this is not that big of a deal as I only have to put 4Lbs in each pocket and the rest of what I need in the trim pocket. That being said my pocket has come out over 6 times where I was able to recover the pocket and continue my dive. There were 2 times that I was not aware that the pocket came out as it is forever gone. One of those time I was getting back on the boat so something may have been bumped.
My wife has lost her weight pocket twice,once getting back on the boat and once in the middle of a dive, I saw it drop and she was simply coasting over the reef and rolled over. Both time we were able to recover the pocket.
The problem is more of an issue when I am doing cold water dives and have to have a little more weight in there. It seems that the pockets hang way out of the slot on the bc and almost want to come out all the time, I find that I have to swim with my hands over the pockets to make sure that they don't pop out. Well this last weekend the worst happened and I lost a pocket at 70 feet, suddenly I wauncontrolledontroled luckily, luckly I was able to dump air and hold on to a rock until my buddy found my pocket. I put it back in and aborted the dive. On the boat I removed weight redistributed and went on the next dive. This time my pocket came out while I was dsafetyy saftey stop. I turned to confirm with my buddy we were ready to surface and out it came, down in to the depths of Monterey Bay.
At first I thought it was me, but I have replaced the pockets, chpocketse posckets from one side to the other and it seems nothing is helping. Both sides and both BC's have had this issue? This is getting to be expensive. It's to the point that I don't want to put any weight in the BC at all and dive with a belt? Kind of negates the point of a weight integrated BC.
Can anyone help me or is it time to look to a different setup?
Thank!
Michael
This problem that I have had is with the weight pockets. There are now 3 of them on the bottom of the sea and I am getting more than a little tired replacing them and the lead.
I discovered that I can not put more than one weight in either pocket on my BC because if I ever roll over and there is hard lead in there Velcrolcro won't hold the weights apart, they smack together and out comes the weight pocket. In the tropics this is not that big of a deal as I only have to put 4Lbs in each pocket and the rest of what I need in the trim pocket. That being said my pocket has come out over 6 times where I was able to recover the pocket and continue my dive. There were 2 times that I was not aware that the pocket came out as it is forever gone. One of those time I was getting back on the boat so something may have been bumped.
My wife has lost her weight pocket twice,once getting back on the boat and once in the middle of a dive, I saw it drop and she was simply coasting over the reef and rolled over. Both time we were able to recover the pocket.
The problem is more of an issue when I am doing cold water dives and have to have a little more weight in there. It seems that the pockets hang way out of the slot on the bc and almost want to come out all the time, I find that I have to swim with my hands over the pockets to make sure that they don't pop out. Well this last weekend the worst happened and I lost a pocket at 70 feet, suddenly I wauncontrolledontroled luckily, luckly I was able to dump air and hold on to a rock until my buddy found my pocket. I put it back in and aborted the dive. On the boat I removed weight redistributed and went on the next dive. This time my pocket came out while I was dsafetyy saftey stop. I turned to confirm with my buddy we were ready to surface and out it came, down in to the depths of Monterey Bay.
At first I thought it was me, but I have replaced the pockets, chpocketse posckets from one side to the other and it seems nothing is helping. Both sides and both BC's have had this issue? This is getting to be expensive. It's to the point that I don't want to put any weight in the BC at all and dive with a belt? Kind of negates the point of a weight integrated BC.
Can anyone help me or is it time to look to a different setup?
Thank!
Michael