LeFlaneur
Contributor
Hi all,
This is a fairly basic newbie weighting question. I'm sure there is a simple scale for figuring out proper weighting based on body weight and wetsuit thickness, but I've forgotten it.
I read somwhere that proper weighting is 10% of your body weight + 5-7 pounds. To me that seems really high. (But it may have been in reference to a very heavy wetsuit). Even on my very first dives in salt water I wore only about 8% of my body weight with a 3mm.
Starting from a base of no wetsuit at all.... how many pounds should one figure... and how much weight should one add per additional millimeter of wetsuit.
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere and I missed it.
This is a fairly basic newbie weighting question. I'm sure there is a simple scale for figuring out proper weighting based on body weight and wetsuit thickness, but I've forgotten it.
I read somwhere that proper weighting is 10% of your body weight + 5-7 pounds. To me that seems really high. (But it may have been in reference to a very heavy wetsuit). Even on my very first dives in salt water I wore only about 8% of my body weight with a 3mm.
Starting from a base of no wetsuit at all.... how many pounds should one figure... and how much weight should one add per additional millimeter of wetsuit.
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere and I missed it.