How much weight do I need in salt water if I weigh 205lbs. and wearing a spring suit (long sleaves/short legs 3mil?

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>>> How much weight do I need in salt water if I weigh 205lbs. and wearing a
>>> spring suit (long sleaves/short legs 3mil?
>>
>> How ever much it takes for you to be neutral at 10 feet with 500 or less
>> PSI
>> in your bottle(s).
>>
>> This is on the off chance you aren't a troll.
>
> I was told that I should take 10% of my weight, sounds like a great deal
> of weight but that's what I'm bringing today.
>
> This newsgroup has become a haven for low lives.

We don't -all- think of you that way.

How much weight do I need in salt water if I weigh 205lbs. and wearing a
spring suit (long sleaves/short legs 3mil?

"CB" <CB@PrayForMe.com> wrote:

> How much weight do I need in salt water if I weigh 205lbs. and wearing a
> spring suit (long sleaves/short legs 3mil?

It depends upon how big your cock is and whether it will fit my butt.

"CB" <CB@PrayForMe.com> wrote in message
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> How much weight do I need in salt water if I weigh 205lbs. and wearing a
> spring suit (long sleaves/short legs 3mil?

How ever much it takes for you to be neutral at 10 feet with 500 or less PSI
in your bottle(s).

This is on the off chance you aren't a troll.

"Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "CB" <CB@PrayForMe.com> wrote in message
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>> How much weight do I need in salt water if I weigh 205lbs. and wearing a
>> spring suit (long sleaves/short legs 3mil?
>
> How ever much it takes for you to be neutral at 10 feet with 500 or less
> PSI
> in your bottle(s).
>
> This is on the off chance you aren't a troll.

I was told that I should take 10% of my weight, sounds like a great deal of
weight but that's what I'm bringing today.

This newsgroup has become a haven for low lives.

On Apr 29, 3:52 am, "CB" <C...@PrayForMe.com> wrote:
> How much weight do I need in salt water if I weigh 205lbs. and wearing a
> spring suit (long sleaves/short legs 3mil?

hi
we get this question so often here as well in the red sea, and the
typical answer and the best solution is to PERFORM A BUOYANCY CHECK.
because no calculation would be useful.it's all individual
differences, some people are relaxed and some others not, some people
have good breathing and others don't, some have the most of their
weight in their fats while others have it in their muscles...
buoyancy check.
1-put all equipment in place.
2-enter water too deep to stand up in.
3-stay vertical and motionless in the water.
4-deflate all the air from your BCD and hold a normal breath.
5-if you are properly weighted u should float to eye level, to test
it exhale , you should sink slowly.
6-add 2 kg to compensate for you air as u breathing it the tank will
go lighter.

i hope you find this information useful
Dive Well
Yasser

"CB" <C...@PrayForMe.com> wrote:
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> I was told that I should take 10% of my weight, sounds like a great deal
> of weight but that's what I'm bringing today.

20lbs for a 3mm shorty does sound a bit high, but with person-to-
person variation, plus with variance in trapped air space in gear, it
isn't impossible, either.

My guess would be that you'll be under 15lbs, but it would be helpful
if you could provide data on how much weighting you needed in any
other situation. For example, if you needed 0lbs in a freshwater pool
and no wetsuit, going from fresh to salt for 200lbs will add around
6lbs.

Similarly, its pretty easy to take a new wetsuit down to the pool, put
it in a mesh bag and see how many weights need to be added to the bag
to sink it. Since this will give you its buoyancy at the surface
(instead of at your safety stop), you should subtract off a bit, plus
after a new suit gets 3-5 dives on it, even a shorty will give up a
pound.


In any event, what you should do after you get a basic buoyancy check
done is at the end of your dive at your safety stop, before heading to
the surface, take a moment and assess how much air was left in your BC
during your safety stop because this represents compensation for
ballast that you didn't need.

One way of doing this would be after you've completed your 15fsw
safety stop, completely empty your BC and gage how negative you
become. Just make sure to then re-fill it to regain neutrality, do
another minute at 15fsw just to be safe, then surface and go write
some notes in your logbook for what you just learned, so as to help
with fine-tuning your weights when planning your next dive.


> This newsgroup has become a haven for low lives.

There's a lot of low lifes everywhere these days, unfortunately.
Fortunately, a good on-topic post here still draws out good
information from the community here. Only problem is the shortage of
good, on-topic posts.


-hh

CB wrote:
> How much weight do I need in salt water if I weigh 205lbs. and wearing a
> spring suit (long sleaves/short legs 3mil?
>
>

The "10%" rule is a good place to start but the BEST way is to perform a
bouyancy check before the dive.

There are SO many variables here.

Different people have different bouyancy characteristics. Another 205lb
person may require more or less weight than you.

Also, what style tanks will you be using? An Al80 will be positive when
empty whereas a steel 100 will be negative.

How new is your wetsuit? After a wetsuit has been used a bit and been
to some depth, it will become less bouyant.

This is why I said 10% is a good place to start. I would have more
weight available if you need it.

On 29 Apr 2007 02:47:22 -0700, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
wrote:

> "CB" <C...@PrayForMe.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was told that I should take 10% of my weight, sounds like a great deal
>> of weight but that's what I'm bringing today.
>

Take 2 4 pound, 2 3 pound and 2 2pound weights, On the first dive wear
it all. at the end try to remember to keep 500 psi in your tank and
then experiment. remove a weight and take all the air out of your BC
you are looking to have a float depth of half way up your mask. If you
go lower take off another weight etc then write the number down in
your log book along with the thickness of your dive suit

rec.scuba's resident pussy "Scott" <pugetsounddiver@gmail.com>
sputtered:

> This is on the off chance you aren't a troll.

Scotty is paranoid about everyone.

There's a greater chance that the person is just one of Scotty's
sockpuppets.


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