Opinion on DiveRite 16lb weight pocket

[eelnoraa]

Does anyone use DR quick release weight pockets here? I am thinking of getting a pair for my SS+Tranplate setup. I want to hear some comment and opinion.

Usually I dive in 50-55F water, use 7mm wetsuit. I have been using 14lb on weight belt. But since belt needs to be below the harness waist belt, I found weight is too low on my body, I dive leg heavy. I have tried to thread 4-6lb on to my harness waist belt, trim becomes better, but the rig itself is too heavy for convinient moving around on land. I want something I can quickly take off when I am not diving. QR in water is just a bonus. The DR 16lb pocket seems to fit my need, but my concern is the size of them, I am afraid it take up too much space on harness and make the whole BP/W setup more cumbersome.

let me hear your comments. And any other suggestion will be welcomed.

 

[eelnoraa]

no one use this item?? is it because too expansive for what it does? or all BP/W user prefer belt for harness like DUI?

 

[fnfalman]

You either wear the integrated pouches or you wear a weight belt of some sort. Or another alternative is the DUI weight harness.

I like the Dive Rite pouches on my Transplate harness. I'm fat and have no waistline, so it's either the integrated pouches or the DUI weight harness. I prefer the integrated pouches, and the Dive Rite pouches fill that need.

 

[cjfox]

I just recently got a transplate with the bigger 32lb weight pouches. I love it! I previously was using a sherwood outback with integrated weights, but up north I wear a dry suit, and the sherwood dumped the weights too easily when fully loaded. (13lb per side with non dump trim weights totalling 36lb). I went back to a weight belt and less weight in the bc, but it was uncomfortable. I shoot a lot of video, so horizontal trim is very important to me, and the integrated weight on the transplate is perfect for what I do. I have 12lb in each pouch with an extra 5lb per side non ditchable, and an extra weight in the plate groove, for 36lb total.

 

[Puffer Fish]

I use the larger ones also (in two different BP/W's). not bad.

With my warm water setup, usually only have 8 or so lbs in them, but they seem to hole the weight reasonably still.

 

[eelnoraa]

Did you mount the weight pocket with the QR pull handle toward the front or downward? or upward for the sake of completeness?