The PADI Confined Water Dive 2 Performance Requirement number 15:
"Remove weights at the surface with minimal assistance using the weight system's quick release mechanism."
If you did this in a Zeagle Ranger BCD you would have to exit the water take off your BCD lay it all out on the deck and with gloves off, re-string the entire system - about 20 minutes if you've practiced it before. And this assumes that you don't need a student to assist you in diving to the bottom to retrieve some of the parts.
Question for professionals do you do the skill exactly as is written, or modify it. If you do it exactly as written - is it only because your BCD accomodates this skill because of it's design or do you demonstrate with another weight system (such as adding a weight belt if you're wearing integrated)?
Question for students divers or any diver who remembers their class and wore integrated weight BCDs during class - what do you remember doing for this skill?
"Remove weights at the surface with minimal assistance using the weight system's quick release mechanism."
If you did this in a Zeagle Ranger BCD you would have to exit the water take off your BCD lay it all out on the deck and with gloves off, re-string the entire system - about 20 minutes if you've practiced it before. And this assumes that you don't need a student to assist you in diving to the bottom to retrieve some of the parts.
Question for professionals do you do the skill exactly as is written, or modify it. If you do it exactly as written - is it only because your BCD accomodates this skill because of it's design or do you demonstrate with another weight system (such as adding a weight belt if you're wearing integrated)?
Question for students divers or any diver who remembers their class and wore integrated weight BCDs during class - what do you remember doing for this skill?