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How much weight?
- Thread starterapnearevOlution
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It doesn't work like that.
There are numerous variables that determine the appropriate amount of weight.
1. What is your body composition?
2. What thickness, type of neoprene, and style of weitsuit are you using.
3. Are you diving in fresh or salt water?
4. What is your comfort level?
5. Are you spearfishing, freediving, or snorkeling?
6. What depths will you be repetitively diving to?
Basically, there is no out of water calculation to determine exactly how much weight you require. If you are very comfortable in the water and an experienced freediver, I suggest that you find the amount of weight that will make you neutrally bouyant at 10 meters depth. I would use this as a baseline rule of thumb.
To achieve this you need to hang a weight on a 10 meter line from a float in the water. Then dive down to the where the weight on the end of the line is hanging, and just relax and stare at it. If you are sinking, you need to lessen the amount of weight on your weightbelt. If you are rising, you need to add some weight to your weight belt.
Hope this helps.
Jim
There are numerous variables that determine the appropriate amount of weight.
1. What is your body composition?
2. What thickness, type of neoprene, and style of weitsuit are you using.
3. Are you diving in fresh or salt water?
4. What is your comfort level?
5. Are you spearfishing, freediving, or snorkeling?
6. What depths will you be repetitively diving to?
Basically, there is no out of water calculation to determine exactly how much weight you require. If you are very comfortable in the water and an experienced freediver, I suggest that you find the amount of weight that will make you neutrally bouyant at 10 meters depth. I would use this as a baseline rule of thumb.
To achieve this you need to hang a weight on a 10 meter line from a float in the water. Then dive down to the where the weight on the end of the line is hanging, and just relax and stare at it. If you are sinking, you need to lessen the amount of weight on your weightbelt. If you are rising, you need to add some weight to your weight belt.
Hope this helps.
Jim
your right, i definetly gave you a very broad idea.
1. What is your body composition?
2. What thickness, type of neoprene, and style of weitsuit are you using.
3. Are you diving in fresh or salt water?
4. What is your comfort level?
5. Are you spearfishing, freediving, or snorkeling?
6. What depths will you be repetitively diving to?
1) Muscle, Fat
2) 7mm wetsuit, 7mm gloves, 7mm boots
3) salt water
4) im pretty comfortable in the water as long as im warm
5)freediving, and snorkeling to the reef
6) between 0ft and maybe 80ft
also want to use for scuba too, so i want to order a little extra weight for that too.
1. What is your body composition?
2. What thickness, type of neoprene, and style of weitsuit are you using.
3. Are you diving in fresh or salt water?
4. What is your comfort level?
5. Are you spearfishing, freediving, or snorkeling?
6. What depths will you be repetitively diving to?
1) Muscle, Fat
2) 7mm wetsuit, 7mm gloves, 7mm boots
3) salt water
4) im pretty comfortable in the water as long as im warm
5)freediving, and snorkeling to the reef
6) between 0ft and maybe 80ft
also want to use for scuba too, so i want to order a little extra weight for that too.
apnearevOlution said:
With scuba, you may not need additional weight. There are a variety of tanks that offer different buoyancy characteristics, such as Faber tanks that can be as much as 5 kilos of negative buoyancy when full. Aluminum tanks tend to become floaters as they get emptied.
My suggestion for determining your needed weight amount for freediving remains the same as posted above.
For scuba, you need to become negatively bouyant at the surface when all of the air in your BC is let out. If you do a lot of diving, consider two different weight belts, one for each discipline. A rubber weight belt for freediving and a comfortable pouch weightbelt for scuba.
Jim