Water as weight rather than lead?

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H2Andy:
the question:
can you use water as weight, instead of lead weight?
For example, say that you take containers of water instead of lead. Yes, water weights six pounds per gallon, so you would have to take two gallons of water to equal 12 pounds, but...

Say you tie two milk gallons full of water to your waist...
Wouldn’t it be the same as wearing lead weights?
We were having this discussion, and someone was saying that wouldn’t work, because the water would “float on water."
is this correct?
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This is a joke, right?
Please say it is.

The reasons this is a ridiculous idea are found in PADI OW module 1. At least one knowledge review question deals with this. Every other agency covers it to a greater extent.

"It's the end of the world, Dr. Cornelius!"
 
dweeb, you are amazing... you manage to find a thread wihtout a single troll in it
after 53 posts, and then you post not one, but THREE trolls back to back to back

bravo!

not to mention the arrogance, hubris, and lack of respect that drip from every
word in your posts

:35:
 
H2Andy:
not to mention the arrogance, hubris, and lack of respect that drip from every
word in your posts :35:
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I wondered what that nasty looking puddle collecting under my monitor was.
 
glbirch:
I wondered what that nasty looking puddle collecting under my monitor was.
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like i am so not going to go there ;)
 
If you didn't have so many post, I'd swear you were a troll. You can't be serious....

H2Andy:
the question:

can you use water as weight, instead of lead weight?

For example, say that you take containers of water instead of lead. Yes, water weights six pounds per gallon, so you would have to take two gallons of water to equal 12 pounds, but...

Say you tie two milk gallons full of water to your waist...

Wouldn’t it be the same as wearing lead weights?

We were having this discussion, and someone was saying that wouldn’t work, because the water would “float on water."

is this correct?
Click to expand...
 
DiverDunk:
If you didn't have so many post, I'd swear you were a troll. You can't be serious....
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ignorant, maybe, but no troll

actually, it's a real question that came up during a dive with
some buddies this weekend

and yes, i am serious

and thanks for pointing out how ridiculous my question is
and that i should not have asked it in the first place.
better to keep your mouth shut than to learn anything useful,
at the risk of showing you don't know something, right?
 
H2Andy:
ignorant, maybe, but no troll

actually, it's a real question that came up during a dive with
some buddies this weekend

and yes, i am serious

and thanks for pointing out how ridiculous my question is
and that i should not have asked it in the first place.
better to keep your mouth shut than to learn anything useful,
at the risk of showing you don't know something, right?
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I was one of the buddies that was with H2 and it was a real question that I think on the surface is worth asking, if for nothing else but to see all the interesting answers to it. I'm glad he asked it.
 
H2Andy:
ignorant, maybe, but no troll

actually, it's a real question that came up during a dive with
some buddies this weekend

and yes, i am serious

and thanks for pointing out how ridiculous my question is
and that i should not have asked it in the first place.
better to keep your mouth shut than to learn anything useful,
at the risk of showing you don't know something, right?
Click to expand...

Dude I have a lot more respect for someone who asks a "dumb" question than one who just figures he knows it all.
Keep asking..
 
Andy,

you got my vote for taking this with as much decorum as possible! Kudos to Smokeaire for not letting him dangle in the breeze!

I have had more than my fair share of brain farts... where reality plum eludes me. This board is a place to get what the instructor failed to give you or that you failed to absorb. My initial dives included safety pauses and that's about it. Who was to fault? I have no idea, but I am glad that SB put me on the straight and narrow before I hurt myself. This place has made me a far better instructor as well.

So please... ask all you want! The only Stoopid question is the one not asked.
 
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