Thank you Mike. I was looking at the Faber for the sale they have. But since, I'm in Canada, I think that with the shipment cost the Faber will be almost the same as the Worthington my LSD have. I have to check that.
Some people told me it would be a bad idea diving with a steel tank and no weight vs Al tank + weights if I happen to have problem with my BCD or anything else.
What do you think ?
On the sale price, if the prices are comparible, as I said in my earlier post, buy the Worthington. It has a better finnish and a better valve. But overall there is nothring wrong with the Fabers either.
well the idea behind having weights is that they are ditchable.
However, I dive a Faber FX100 and don't wear any weight (or hardly do). In the quarries, I'm a little negative w/o weight (at depth) and about neutral at 20 ft. however I can easily swim to the surface without use of my BC for lift. (I don't agree with using your BC as lift to ascend anyway).
In saltwater, on deeper dives where my wetsuit compresses, I can dive with no weight but might need to pull myself down the anchor line the first few feet. I typically might add about two 2-pounders (one on each side on my BC) to offset this... This is also usefull for shallow reef dives where you have more of a tendancy to "float up".
But either way, even with a steel tank, I can still kick up with very little effort, so the concern in ditching weights is not a problem with me. Now if I was diving a 6 pound backplate and negative single or double tanks, that might be an issue. that's why some folks who dive heavy use redundant bladders in their BC's, just in case. Or I could switch to an aluminum backplate which is much lighter also as another option, in this case.
Ditching weights isn't always the "sure fire solution" either. You don't want to "rocket" to the surface like a Polaris missile being fires out of a submarine. You want an ascent that you can control in any situation, especially in an emergency. (just my opinion).
hope this all helps... mike
