DIR- Generic Weight Plates on Webbing - Considered DIR-friendly?

[Alaskan Scuba Dude]

X-deep integrate weight systems into their classic sidemount harness. Redundant buoyancy is always recommended. What I don't like is if the bungees break. Threading a few through the harness might me an option, and two in a pouch. It looks very tidy.

 

[tursiops]

Hot take: weights on your harness are not necessary.

You can say that about yourself. You can't generalize to everybody.

 

[tursiops]

What I don't like is if the bungees break.

Have you ever seen a bungee of reasonable thickness in a scuba application break?

 

[Adobo]

I have these weight plates that I found on DGX. Quite like them because they stay close to the body (or at least marginally closer than a weight pocket). But are these considered DIR-friendly?

Link: Highland Weight Plates - Set of Two

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Hmmm... why attach them there? For single tank diving I put weights on the cam straps. Is that no longer in fashion?

In the picture above, the weight underneath the armpit seems like it would interfere with how a backup flashlight would attached.

 

[tursiops]

Rumor has it that that user is a bot.

I started that rumor, I think. And I think I was wrong.

 

[PfcAJ]

You can say that about yourself. You can't generalize to everybody.

Yea, I really can. There’s no benefit to putting them on a harness.

This is right up there with ankle weights.

 

[Plumose]

I know this is a resurrection of the thread, but I did make a 3d printable one a while ago and have uploaded it so anyone can print them.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/676692

I was talking to someone about them, and how they are even more over priced in the UK ( Amazon UK)
so while searching for the UK price I came across this thread and thought I might as well register to help out anyone that was still interested

 

[Cthippo]

Yea, I really can. There’s no benefit to putting them on a harness.

This is right up there with ankle weights.

Acknowledging this is an old thread, but how are younestablishing trim without moving weight around?

 

[PfcAJ]

Acknowledging this is an old thread, but how are younestablishing trim without moving weight around?

Body position mostly.

If your tanks are set in the right spot, trim is controlled by posture. Al80 double (as an example) become quite butt-light as they get empty. So what to do? Move weight during the dive? Of course not. You change your arms and legs and move your center of balance around. Same goes for stages, picking up something negative off the bottom, whatever.

You dive the gear, it doesn’t dive you. Get your tanks positioned right and fine tune the rest with your body. If you learn to do that, moving from different tanks (singles, doubles, steels, aluminum, big small), adding stages, cameras, wetsuit/drysuit etc becomes a nonissue. Trying to shuffle weights around to get “juuussstt right” is futile because it literally changes during the dive.

 

[rddvet]

Yea, I really can. There’s no benefit to putting them on a harness.

This is right up there with ankle weights.

Wtf. How am I supposed to properly walk on the reef when I dive.