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[mason417]

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What do you do with the weight integrated BCD when traveling, in other words boarding a plane for travel with weight restrictions? I read about making your dive luggage lite for travel. But with a W/I BCD you need those weights. Do you leave them at home and use thier weight belts? Or do you take them with you?

 

[XXXL]

Dont know about dive shops in America, but all the ones I have dived with in Asia including Liveaboards always include weights and tanks, weightbelt also if required.
I usually just pack the weight pouches & use the weights supllied by the LDS.
Unless your BCD needs specific type or size of weights I cant see why you would want to add them to your luggage

 

[vladimir]

Most (all?) weight-integrated BCs accommodate the same slotted lead weights that are used with weightbelts and generally provided by dive operators.

 

[jaybombs25]

is this a serious question?

 

[Tigerman]

I bring the pouches and put the belts weight in them and use them as if I used the plates thats normally in them...

 

[mania]

Integrated weight doesn't mean that you have weights sealed with your Bc. It means that you have pockets instead of weight belt to be filled with weights. So you travel without weights and simply at your destination you fill pockets with weights provided by a diving centre.

Mania

 

[spectrum]

mason417

Leave all of your weights at home.

The destination will provide the weights either for a fee or inclusive. The weights will probably be uncoated hard weights but regardless of what you are usually using at home they will work. They will range from precise commercial products like Sea Pearls to notoriously inaccurate local castings. If you don't trust them then err to be a few pounds heavy, it's safer than finding yourself light. Besides, for most of us while at a vacation destination you will use less lead than at home.

As others have mentioned a weight integrated BC has zippered/ clipped pockets that carry the weight. Depending on the arrangement you may be able to check the weights out for the length of your stay or may be setting them up for each outing.

If you choose to use a belt as part of your rig it is a good idea to bring your own belt with a buckle and keepers that you know and trust. This weighs very little and helps to keep you in a familiar configuration.

Pete

 

[Walter]

You do the exact same thing you would do if you were using a weight belt. Leave the lead at home, take the empty belt or pockets.

 

[seanmcfarland]

I travel with BC (weight integrated is the only way to go), Regulator, camera, UW housing, mask, fins, computer and everything else under the sun. The two things I don't take when traveling by are tanks and WEIGHTS. I have NEVER been somewhere that didn't have weight available for free or for rent.

 

[Oriskany Divemaster]

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