I dount have to wear a weight belt

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Make sure you know your tank. When I was in Guam the dive shops used C80's which are a better al tank the the S80 that you find everywhere. The C80 remains negative the entire dive whereas the S80 becomes Posative. In reality that does not matter as it is the weight of the air in the tank that you lose throughout the dive. You should MAKE SURE you are negative at the end of the dive regardless of ttank you use. Remember with an 80 (actually only 76cubic feet of air) the tanke will lose approx 5 lbs over a dive. So you may be negitive at the start of a dive BUT you may very well be posative at the end.

Pete
 
alex6 once bubbled...
I dount have to wear a weight belt is that normal. We did the weight test in are OW class last night. And my OW Inst said I dount need one. I weigh around 135 140 pounds and we were useing Alum tanks.
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I hope that your OW instructor has you use one with, say, 5lbs on it for the course... if you don't know how to remove & replace your weight belt, I definitely wouldn't want you as a buddy!!!
 
etype once bubbled...
cool, the less lead the better. Hey krisb...hows PrinceGeorge?
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Eh... it's PG. Boring as ever. Know anyone that wants to buy a house here? I'm looking to move south. :-)

(oh, yeah... just so it stays somewhat on topic) second what etype said about the less lead the better. Just make sure you can handle it in case you gain some flubber (or a thick wetsuit) over the next couple years and need to use a weight belt then.
 
No but wouldn't it be weird if tommorow someone says to me " i think i'll buy a house in Prince George" and then i pm you and you sell your house! That'd be strange...think about it.

You going to move to the lower mainland or the island or islands?

Anyway...after Christmas and Newyears i'm always positively bouyant for a week and i have to work out and do situps to attain a negative float. One of the most comfortable feelings in diving is when you have that perfect neutral where you don't roll or pitch you just hang there like your in flight
 
etype once bubbled...
No but wouldn't it be weird if tommorow someone says to me " i think i'll buy a house in Prince George" and then i pm you and you sell your house! That'd be strange...think about it.
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Odd how strange things are often terribly cool!!! :-)

You going to move to the lower mainland or the island or islands?
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Current plan is Fraser Valley -- Abbotsford or nearby. Housing prices not too high and still close enough to the ocean. :-)

Anyway...after Christmas and Newyears i'm always positively bouyant for a week and i have to work out and do situps to attain a negative float. One of the most comfortable feelings in diving is when you have that perfect neutral where you don't roll or pitch you just hang there like your in flight
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Must be nice... I have a permanent flotation device attached. Sometimes it's smaller other times larger... man I wish I could get rid of my "spare-tire". :-)
 
A friend of mine is so "dense" he dives his drysuit without needing any weight (aluminum backplate steel doubles)!

-Klaus
 
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