adza
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Just curious - has anyone ever had to ditch weights before? If so, what was the situation? And, what types of weights were you wearing (integrated, weightbelts, etc)?
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Has anyone ditched weights before?
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H2Andy
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no, though i've accidentally lost my weight belt before, and tried to dive without a weightbelt too...
(my lesson basically has been to make sure i have the belt and make sure it's properly secured ... i'm not too worried about having to ditch it ... i probably would never ditch my weight belt unless i am at the surface and somehow need to get more bouyant ... but a bit of air on my wings should take care of that).
(my lesson basically has been to make sure i have the belt and make sure it's properly secured ... i'm not too worried about having to ditch it ... i probably would never ditch my weight belt unless i am at the surface and somehow need to get more bouyant ... but a bit of air on my wings should take care of that).
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nope. But my insta-buddies did. 1 still told me that he THINKS he lost his weight belt.:doh:
I ditched a an 8lb weight belt while freediving at 50'. I did a poor job and it got hung up on my ankle, so it took me a few kicks to get sorted out and then I had to go back for it on scuba.
I ditched a weight pocket once I had surfaced, after I had to skip a 10 min deco stop. I ditched because I didnt know what would happen, and figured better to ditch, then get sucked back down into the abyss if I blacked out or anything.
I also know several people who have ditched their weights on the surface because they were stuck in kelp.
I also know several people who have ditched their weights on the surface because they were stuck in kelp.
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Think about this: Some people who should have ditched their weights but didn't are not here...
I have.
My OW experience was scary. Me and another student needed to haul our old, bloated, out of shape instructor out of La Jolla cove after dive 3 of 5. So not only did my Thursday and Friday classroom experiences suck (which they did), my Saturday Ocean check out dives sucked.
We pulled moby out of the water, and two weeks later my card showed up.
A week later, I'm taking my wife on a dive for her birthday (the cert was to surprise her.. she was already certified years earlier, but hasn't made a dive in probably 5 years...) in the Catalina dive park. I'm kinda nervous, as its my first dive without a chaperone.
There are classes on the buoys, so we kick over to an un-occupied corner of the park. We look at each other, everything is OK? Its all OK!
On that first dive, in rental gear, I reach up to vent my BC and the inflator pulls out of the corrugated hose. Just pulls out. There is a jacuzzi of water exiting my fully inflated jacket BC. So there a bubbles all around me, noise, and I'm sinking.
Inflator in my hand, Kenny is sinking like a rock. Doubtless horribly overwighted. Wife on the surface, sees me dropping...
I kick like a mofo, but I'm pretty freaked out. I have no idea whats going on, except I'm in strange gear, first time out by myself, and I'm not floating anymore. My reg is in my mouth, but I'm so over breathing it its pretty useless.
I dump the belt. Instantly its much easier to tread water. I flop onto my back, head to the sky, and catch my breath. We kick back to the shore and climb out.
Welcome to Scuba, Ken...
We didn't dive again for another couple of months. In fact, the first three years I think we only did about 40 dives total.
Then I met someone at the ScubaShow that changed the way I dive. Gave me confidence in the water again, and showed me how to dive so I don't kill myself. I did another 18 dives with him and that SSI shop and it put me on the right path. SSI AOW taught slowly and competently. ANDI EAN, real navigation, etc. Did my first boat dives, etc. It changed everything for me, this shop.
Then I found SB....
Moved to a Steel tank
Moved into Drysuits
Purchased and assembled a BP/W
Read about and took DIR/F
Now my gear never even gets dry, doing 250+ a year...
OY.
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Ken
My OW experience was scary. Me and another student needed to haul our old, bloated, out of shape instructor out of La Jolla cove after dive 3 of 5. So not only did my Thursday and Friday classroom experiences suck (which they did), my Saturday Ocean check out dives sucked.
We pulled moby out of the water, and two weeks later my card showed up.
A week later, I'm taking my wife on a dive for her birthday (the cert was to surprise her.. she was already certified years earlier, but hasn't made a dive in probably 5 years...) in the Catalina dive park. I'm kinda nervous, as its my first dive without a chaperone.
There are classes on the buoys, so we kick over to an un-occupied corner of the park. We look at each other, everything is OK? Its all OK!
On that first dive, in rental gear, I reach up to vent my BC and the inflator pulls out of the corrugated hose. Just pulls out. There is a jacuzzi of water exiting my fully inflated jacket BC. So there a bubbles all around me, noise, and I'm sinking.
Inflator in my hand, Kenny is sinking like a rock. Doubtless horribly overwighted. Wife on the surface, sees me dropping...
I kick like a mofo, but I'm pretty freaked out. I have no idea whats going on, except I'm in strange gear, first time out by myself, and I'm not floating anymore. My reg is in my mouth, but I'm so over breathing it its pretty useless.
I dump the belt. Instantly its much easier to tread water. I flop onto my back, head to the sky, and catch my breath. We kick back to the shore and climb out.
Welcome to Scuba, Ken...
We didn't dive again for another couple of months. In fact, the first three years I think we only did about 40 dives total.
Then I met someone at the ScubaShow that changed the way I dive. Gave me confidence in the water again, and showed me how to dive so I don't kill myself. I did another 18 dives with him and that SSI shop and it put me on the right path. SSI AOW taught slowly and competently. ANDI EAN, real navigation, etc. Did my first boat dives, etc. It changed everything for me, this shop.
Then I found SB....
Moved to a Steel tank
Moved into Drysuits
Purchased and assembled a BP/W
Read about and took DIR/F
Now my gear never even gets dry, doing 250+ a year...
OY.
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Ken
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Mo2vation:
If the same thing happened again, would you also ditch your weights, or would you snap the inflator back on?
I found a steel 72 tank at 50 ft and decided to trade 4 lbs of weights for it. I could'nt swim it up till I droped two 2 lb weights. Got it to the surface and found it full of air. Good swap I would do it again.
divinginn
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makes you wonder what happened to the owner of that tank.
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