| harness, not stupid to ask, stupid not to ask!!
Harnesses rock! No more worrying about a belt slipping round your knees on the Stanegarth during a night dive (that was an interesting experience, particularly ascending the buoy line whilst holding a weight belt)
Take your time to fiddle and decide what configuration is the most comfortable, with increased experience you need less weight anyway (I've dispensed with 6Kg over the past year), the only thing that matters is being able to get to the releases freely. (Something to do with safety....probably not that important....unless you happen to think that the acronym BWRAF in the pre-dive check might have some relevance....W for weights, R for releases?)
As to stiff releases, I'm not familiar with your system but I'd suggest releasing the weight packs and reassembling them a few times. If that doesn't improve things I would go back to the shop and make dissatisfied noises, they should be able to sort out the stuff they sell.
Once you've dived with the harness a few times you'll wonder why they aren't standard issue rather than belts but there are so many ways to carry weight and the belt is probably the easiest default method.
Enjoy your diving.  |