How much weight?

[tholt576]

All I can tell you is that you don't want to be underweighted. Everyone gives novice divers a hard time for being overweighted, but if you are underweighted you likely won't know until the middle of the dive and by then it will be too late to do anything about it.

If you were carrying 12 lbs with a 7 mil in salt and are going to skin in fresh, I'd say you can probably drop a lot of that weight. Especially if you think you were overweighted to begin with. Just make sure you remember that your tank is going to weigh about 6lbs less at the end of the dive than it does at the begining. So don't weight yourself for neutral surface boyancy at the begining of the dive, weight yourself for neutral boyancy for what you'll be at the end of the dive. (i.e. 6lbs more than it takes to make you float at eye level with a full set of lungs.)

 

[SubMariner]

Scuba is NOT the sport to be taking shortcuts!

Do you also skip doing a BWRAF before you get in the water?

I'm comfortable with my swimming abilities and strength that I could swim up from the bottom if something like that were to happen. If worst comes to worst and for some unkown reason I couldn't, I could take off the gear and swim up.

When was the last time you were in the water? How long have you been scuba diving? In what conditions? How many dives?

IMHO you need a serious refresher course. Or at the very least a serious attitude adjustment. :whack:

~SubMariner~

 

[PaulB]

SubMariner once bubbled...
Scuba is NOT the sport to be taking shortcuts!

Do you also skip doing a BWRAF before you get in the water?


When was the last time you were in the water? How long have you been scuba diving? In what conditions? How many dives?

IMHO you need a serious refresher course. Or at the very least a serious attitude adjustment. :whack:

~SubMariner~

Wow..back off! You know nothing about her! I've dove with her a few times and she is better than a lot of the yahoos I've seen out there and she is very safe.
From what I've gotten from talking with her, she's done mostly sw dives. She asked a simple question and you're jumping all over her. It sounds to me that SOMEONE ELSE needs an attitude adjustment!

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

Well Amber I wish I could dive with just 12 pounds while wearing a 7 mil. That would be sweet.

In fresh water I'll use 23 pounds with a 7 mil including thick hood, gloves and booties. If I use a vest I add 4 more pounds. Then if it's salt I add about 3 to 4 pounds. This is where keeping an accurate logbook that includes what rubber you wore and what weight it took.

SM attitude? You saw some attitude there? really?

 

[Wendy]

SubMariner once bubbled...
Scuba is NOT the sport to be taking shortcuts!

Do you also skip doing a BWRAF before you get in the water?


When was the last time you were in the water? How long have you been scuba diving? In what conditions? How many dives?

IMHO you need a serious refresher course. Or at the very least a serious attitude adjustment. :whack:

~SubMariner~

What is your problem? Amber asked a simple question about weighting differences when in fresh water without a wetsuit and you jump all over here. Are you in the habit of yelling at young girls or do you act this way towards everybody? I seriously think that you owe her an apology.

 

[plsdiver4377]

SubMariner once bubbled...
Scuba is NOT the sport to be taking shortcuts!

Do you also skip doing a BWRAF before you get in the water?


When was the last time you were in the water? How long have you been scuba diving? In what conditions? How many dives?

IMHO you need a serious refresher course. Or at the very least a serious attitude adjustment. :whack:

~SubMariner~

With that kinda attitude towards young ladies ya'll might be in need of a trip out behind the woodshed.:upset:

 

[TropiGal]

Maybe this will help....check out Rodale's Scuba Diving Buoyancy Calculator.

http://www.scubadiving.com/training/instruction/buoycalc/buoycalc.shtml

 

[Amber]

SubMariner once bubbled...
Scuba is NOT the sport to be taking shortcuts!

Do you also skip doing a BWRAF before you get in the water?


When was the last time you were in the water? How long have you been scuba diving? In what conditions? How many dives?

IMHO you need a serious refresher course. Or at the very least a serious attitude adjustment. :whack:

~SubMariner~

Ouch. That stung a bit .
I think you misinterperated what I was saying. I wasn't implying that I wanted to cut corners. I am well aware that scuba diving is not the sport to take lightly. I WAS however asking for a ballpark number. That way, I would have somewhere to begin, some estimate and range as to what might be the correct number. You know, somewhere to start. I was still planning on doing a weight check, it's just easier of you know where to start.

Thanks for making me feel 4 inches tall for no reason.

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

Amber once bubbled...


Thanks for making me feel 4 inches tall for no reason.

Don't concern yourself Amber, it made itself 4 inches tall instead of you.