Weight Belt

[Kennyscot]

What is the best weight belt. May be used with a harness.

 

[shurite7]

Are you referring to a back plate with harness? If so then a normal weight belt works fine.

I have seen individuals use a pocket weight belt that used soft weights. It too worked fine.

Salaam

Chris

 

[Kennyscot]

I'm looking at the XS scuba pocket wt belt. Likes? ..dislikes?...going to use it with transpac..

 

[CompuDude]

I'm looking at the XS scuba pocket wt belt. Likes? ..dislikes?...going to use it with transpac..

Best thing since sliced bread.

You can use with hard or soft weights. I prefer coated hard weights. Very easy to swap weight around to suit changing gear configurations (switching from wet to dry, aluminum to steel tanks, 7mm to 3mm wetsuits, etc.)

 

[Kennyscot]

Can the weight pockets be separated to possible be used other places.. for trim ect..

 

[CompuDude]

No, they're sewn together into two groups, a right group and a left group. I suppose you could add a single pocket, just slip it on... if your waist is big enough (read: darn big). Or just get the 8 pocket belt (4 per side) and use or don't use one as needed.

Personally, I use the 6 pocket belt (3 per side) and leave the middle pocket empty, because I don't need all the weight and it makes my canister light's battery pack happy to have a place to go over.

 

[all4scuba05]

I have the small with 4 pockets. Then bought 2 single XS pockets and slid them on. Why, because I can always remove two pockets when needing only 4. Which happened when I switched to BP/W anyway. Now I have the 2 single pockets on my tank straps and I slid the double pockets off my weight belt and slid them onto the BP waist strap. Nice to have a flexible weightbelt.

 

[spectrum]

I used a mixed belt. My local summertime cold water belt has two 5 pound solids and 2 XS Scuba pockets. That lets me go from 10 to 20 pounds without breaking the belt down. Very handy!

The actual belt is common webbing a buckle and 4 keepers.

Pete

 

[Green_Manelishi]

What is the best weight belt. May be used with a harness.

The best weightbelt is no weightbelt: 7mm onepiece wetsuit with boots/mitts/hooded vest, HP80 tank, steel or Al BP. No weightbelt. How "schweet" it is !!!

 

[Splitlip]

Can the weight pockets be separated to possible be used other places.. for trim ect..

Why not just use a conventional weight belt and the individual pockets slid (or velcored) on? ( see bottom of linked page).
I took my XS pouches I use for trim on one rig and made a quick change weight belt for my daughter so we could do a buoyancy check.

http://www.xsscuba.com/weight_belts.html