when would you have to dump all of your weight

[Gabriel90512]

could someone tell me when you would have to dump all of your weight..
.. im new to scuba and i cant think of a problem when i would have to dump my weight .. if i was with my buddy....

is this more of a thing if you are diving solo and run out of air ?

Thanks


Gabe

 

[ShakaZulu]

Myself, never........... The person who rescues me after a incident, hopefully at the surface.

PS. I may dump it if I rapture the bladder of my BC, after I get to the surface.

 

[H2Andy]

there has been quite a lot of discussion on this subject (you could do a search
for "weight dump" and you'll see what i mean), so you are bound to get many
views.

essentially, you are correct. there really isn't a time when you should dump all
your weight EXCEPT for at the surface (to re-gain positive bouyancy in case
your BC can't be inflated for some reason). some people
will argue that even this should not be necessary.

personally, i would ditch my weight at the surface
in an emergency, just in case. i don't need the weight,
so why lug it around on top of doing everything else?

 

[Iruka]

Very rare, I would think. With about 5,000 dives, I've never had to drop wt....but sometimes (on the surface) I will remove wt from divers who are panicking and "think" they need to be higher out of the water. (these are cases where I can put the wt belt in a nearby float or drop it down just 10 or 15', so I can go get it once the diver calms down. These are mostly "intro" divers who've decided diving's just not for them, and if they don't want to submerge, the easiest/safest way to deal with them is to remove their wts, inflate their BCD, and let them hang onto a surface float (inner tube type) with the reg in, while I tow them around.

As far as ditching wts at depth, I'd think it would have to be an out of air situation, with no buddy nearby, and having a long way up. Generally, if the diver and/or guide are paying attention, the diver should not become "low" on air during the deep part of the dive (assuming there's a shallow alternative, like a reef, to finish the dive...)

 

[String]

When would you have to dump all your weight?

Underwater never.

On the surface possibly.

 

[ChrisA]

could someone tell me when you would have to dump all of your weight..
.. im new to scuba and i cant think of a problem when i would have to dump my weight .. if i was with my buddy....

is this more of a thing if you are diving solo and run out of air ?

Thanks


Gabe

I think the only time you would need to ditch your weights while at depth would be if you found yourself under water with very little or no air and no buddy nearby and the surface was to far up to swim to.. It would have to be a decision between drowning and being bent, so you pick "bent" and go for a rocket-lke asent with no weight.

Or maybe some medical condition happens to you and you are loosing concisness or
think you might and figure your chances are better on the surface

I think many of us have at least once lost a buddy, dove to 100+ft or had a reg fail or
freeflow. Hopfully not all on the same dive all at the same time. But if you were so unlucky
to have all that at once, I think you'd be dumpping weights. It's very unlikely you'd havr to dump them at depth

But with any type of serious emergency at the surface the first step, I think is to drop the weights

 

[underwater daphne]

underwater there isn't a situation i can think of.
at the surface, hardly as i expect my bc to keep me positive with weights.
my buddy however might remove it in a rescue situation. the only reason i think that should be necessary is if he needs to take most my gear off to get me to shore and out of the water possibly unconcious (me unconcious, not him. lol.)

there are a few underwater situation where i might want to dump some of my weight, but definitely not all.

 

[alemaozinho]

if your doctor tells you that its ablolutely necessary for your wellbeing

 

[JustJoe]

If for some reason (O2 tox, heart attack) your buddy had a problem and spit the reg, I may ditch his weight to help me bring him up. But other than that????

On the surface I can think of a few. If I was in shark infested water and the boat left me behind...............

Joe

 

[hecker-the-wrecker]

One reason, SEA-MONSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!