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Well it doesn't seem that I'm too far away then...
At the moment I have (on my belt) 2 large weights and one small one, I'm going to take off the small one and put it in one of the rear trim pockets on the back of my BC and then add another small one into the other trim pocket. This should add between 3-4 lbs of weight (according to my crap kitchen scales) putting me in the region of 12-13 Kilo's total, with approximately 18 lbs of dumpable weight still on the belt.... (sorry for the mix of units and bad spelling) If you wondering why I want it off my belt, its cos it absolutely knacks my lower back and siatic nerves when I'm humping a long distance...
My undersuit is a Weezle Extreme which is very compressable (fits into a football size bag) and I also look vacuum packed before and after the dive, but obviously its trapping more air than I imagined... I suppose a good test would be to dive without it, but I wont even think about that for a few months yet.. <Shudders at the thought>
Jay..talking about a suicide system, my mate from the dive club is so paranoid about losing his belt and doing a posiedon missile impression that he has had a set of braces made to attach to the belt.... no way to dump it AT ALL!!! ... its on and its staying on.. :surprised:
I cannot convince him that its preferable to be on the surface waiting to be airlifted to a chamber than nailed to the seabed.. well thats my humble opinion anyway...
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