weighting ?'s in salt water

[Ste Wart]

The thing with responses like "do a weight check" is that you're often offshore, on a boat, with people waiting around. You can do a rough weight check, but if you sit around checking from 20# all the way down to 6# a pound at a time, people around you are going to be mad. Ballpark recommendations are very valuable for not wasting people's time.

So? You're paying for the dive? Tough

Not taking the time to do weightchecks and diving over weighted leads to accidents.

 

[aquaregia]

So? You're paying for the dive? Tough

Not taking the time to do weightchecks and diving over weighted leads to accidents.

Sorry, I didn't mean that you shouldn't do a weightcheck, just that it helps to have a good starting point, which you can get from webforums.

 

[Splitlip]

OP needs to do the check in his tropical gear BEFORE getting on the boat. Even if it means doing it in a fresh water pool at home then doing the math to convert for saltwater. See Spectrum's post on the first page.

I don't expect any local (drift) diving op to let me fart around doing weight checks off shore.

 

[Ste Wart]

OP needs to do the check in his tropical gear BEFORE getting on the boat. Even if it means doing it in a fresh water pool at home then doing the math to convert for saltwater. See Spectrum's post on the first page.

I don't expect any local (drift) diving op to let me fart around doing weight checks off shore.

That's fair enough and I expected someone to mention drift diving, where it is definitely not possible to a weight check.

However.

I've worked in place where customers simply don't know what weight they need as they are renting all equipment. In those instances weight checks are important prior to diving. As the DM can only carry so much "spare" weight.
It's important to be honest with the Dive Op when checking in. A simple "not sure how much weight I need" is not an embarrassing statement.

 

[Frosty]

Hey guys maybee I'm missing something but hasn't the OP already answered their own question

When i dove in st thomas i wore 26lbs and felt way heavy. When i dove gran turk the divemaster said i dove too heavy then put me down to 14lbs. Felt decent. Here is my equipment for the carribean. I weigh 188, 5' 5" henderson lycra 1mm, 3mm shorty or full wetsuit,

The way I see it allowing for um "personal boyancy variations" over time and the slight boyancy change a full suit has over a shorty, The OP has a starting point of 14pounds.
Forgive me if I'm wrong but I would have thought thats a pretty darn good level of weighting (roughly 6kg in my world)
My thinking is that at that level it really is now a matter of specific trim for the individual diver and dive site.--so gain or loose maybee 1kg or perhaps some weight repositioning.
Anyhoo thats the way I read it

 

[RonFrank]

Being a bit heavy is preferable to being underweighted. Just ask my buddy who lost a weight pocket.

People want that magic number that is right on. Funny our DM in Coz dove about 15lbs overweighted so he had extra lead for other divers.... it did not seem to impact him. He was about a buck twenty, so a tiny guy. That gives one an idea how overweight you can be.