Advice Needed - Wing

> I have been considering picking up an Ali BP for the trip, but it seems
> silly to go buy another BP before i've even dived the one I have. But
> the boat has said it's no problems to experiment in the shallow water
> lagoons if I can't get the pool time before I go. Now my only problem is
> staying inside my weight allowance for the plane :)

The weight allowance is my main reason for using an Al BP. There is
also a Kydex plastic BP available on divingniknaks.com for £75 which is
even lighter than Al.

Andy Grey wrote

> Yeah thanks. Helps a lot
> I thinki can just about squeeze the SS BP into my gear along with my
> jacket so i'm gonna have a play with both. The rough calculations I've
> done suggest that I should need no extra weight with it and not be
> significantly negative, but only experimentation will prove me right.

When I used a jacket style BC, I used about 10 lbs when diving in warm
water. With my stainless plate and the same tanks, I use nothing. I'm very
slightly heavy at the beginning of the dive and very slightly buoyant at the
end, but I generally do the entire dive with no gas in my wing. It suits me
that well. Imagine diving with no shift in buoyancy due to changes in depth
and you'll have an idea how great perfect, or near pefect weighting can be.

You may not be lucky enough to hit it right on the nose the way I did, but
you should come close and even being close is better than anything I tried
before.

Lee

Lee Bell wrote:
> When I used a jacket style BC, I used about 10 lbs when diving in warm
> water. With my stainless plate and the same tanks, I use nothing. I'm very
> slightly heavy at the beginning of the dive and very slightly buoyant at the
> end, but I generally do the entire dive with no gas in my wing. It suits me
> that well. Imagine diving with no shift in buoyancy due to changes in depth
> and you'll have an idea how great perfect, or near pefect weighting can be.
>
> You may not be lucky enough to hit it right on the nose the way I did, but
> you should come close and even being close is better than anything I tried
> before.
>
> Lee
>
>

Wow, stop it. You're making me drool. Can't wait to try it out. Thanks
again!

Zen Diver wrote:
>
>> I have been considering picking up an Ali BP for the trip, but it
>> seems silly to go buy another BP before i've even dived the one I
>> have. But the boat has said it's no problems to experiment in the
>> shallow water lagoons if I can't get the pool time before I go. Now my
>> only problem is staying inside my weight allowance for the plane :)
>
> The weight allowance is my main reason for using an Al BP. There is
> also a Kydex plastic BP available on divingniknaks.com for £75 which is
> even lighter than Al.

I know this sounds like a sales plug (and it is a bit), but I had a
batch of high quality Ally backplates made for members of my club and
still have a few left over (the batch was 14 plates as that was how many
could be cut from a stock sheet of 3mm aircraft grade aluminium).

These are fully finished plates and are hard-anodised so ready for webbing.

The cost is £40 + about a fiver for UK delivery (i live in West Sussex
about 10m from Gatwick).

Happy to send details / PDF photo.

TonyH.

On Feb 14, 3:06 am, "Lee Bell" <pleebe...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> water. With my stainless plate and the same tanks, I use nothing. I'm very
> slightly heavy at the beginning of the dive and very slightly buoyant at the
> end, but I generally do the entire dive with no gas in my wing. It suits me
> that well. Imagine diving with no shift in buoyancy due to changes in depth
> and you'll have an idea how great perfect, or near pefect weighting can be.

I experienced the same during my only time diving in warm water
wearing
a shorty. The mobility and having effortless bouyancy control without
fiddling
with a BCD was a revelation. I'd been used to the "Titanic" feeling
in my
neoprene drysuit, 8kg weight belt and ankle weights (which I've since
dispensed
with).