Noting from feedback that it's good to note that a proper weight check involves a pre dive check and an end of the dive check done at the safety stop. In the video, I described a pre five check but should have included mention of the additional safety stop check. This is where you should be able to have enough weight when your tank I'd low on air to comfortably hover at 20 ft or 5 m for 3 minutes without needing to fin downward. If you cannot calmly and comfortably hover, you should add weight. I describe the pre-dive check in the video.
Good advice! Weight can change do to temperature also if you dive one week and the water temperature is warm and next week the water temperature drops. You will need to add weight if water temperature drops.
Great info here! I have a question. Let's say you use 10# in fresh water l, with a 3 mil wetsuit, How much more would I have to use in the ocean, with the same wetsuit? Is there a formula for this?
Glad you enjoyed the video! Ah, yes for calculating the weight you need, assuming you nailed the gear and weighting for fresh water, you need to weight you and all of your gear for fresh water and multiply that be 2.5% to get your answer. It's usually 4 to 6 lbs more for most folk.
When frog finning, your legs are mostly straight until the end of the kick where you reset the fins and angle them out before the next kick, this also helps with stability before kicking again, but they do stay mostly straight during the kick.
A proper buoyancy check at the start of a dive with a full cylinder of air is completely wrong, bad information. The eye level float test is only relevant when the gear is at its lightest configuration, ie: end of dive after the air cylinder has been used down to the minimum reserve pressure/weight, or before a dive with a near empty cylinder. Take for example a typical AL80 tank which contains over 6lb of air when full. Burn that air down to a nominal reserve and now you have consumed >5lb of air. Performing the suggested buoyancy check at the start of the dive while having a full cylinder will result in the diver being over 5lbs too light at the end of the dive and pretty much impossible to remain at a safety stop depth without external aid (hanging on to something or someone).
Thank you for your thoughts! It's not wrong information, albeit a proper buoyancy check involves two components, one st the start and the end of the dive. I described the initial one here because the most diver deaths that I've read on are caused by way too high over weighting from the get-go. But yes, you are right that a proper buoyancy check involves a second part at the safety stop. It is, of course, only possible to correct the second part on a sequential dive unless you have a dive sherpa while the first check can be corrected immediately before the dive.
@@itravelwisely What useful information is gained by performing your suggested pre-dive w/full-tank "buoyancy check"? Absolutely nothing, it is completely misleading and most likely to get noobs into trouble. It would have been a great video and maybe the first of its kind if you demonstrated your first "test", then demonstrated what will happen for that diver at the end if dive at near reserve air pressure when 5lb (or more) underweight and trying to do a safety stop @ 15ft. Etch into people's minds the visual of the diver desperately clinging to an anchor line or kicking frantically with their fins upside down (feet up) while their rig is pulling them hard toward the surface. I recently dove in tropical waters with an adhoc group of strangers at a dive resort. Nearing the 3/4 mark of our first dive, when I shallowed to nav over a high reef section, my assigned dive buddy tried to follow but went to the surface uncontrolled. He was a decent, very experienced diver and had purged all BCD air and lungs, but still went up like a cork. I swam up to him and handed him 2lbs from the 10lbs I was carrying for myself (for me 8lb was sufficient as I learned on my ending buoyancy check). That +2lbs was still not enough for him to get back down to 20ft or more to continue the last 1/4 of the dive, so I drove him back down so fast he signaled me to slow because his ears couldn't equalize that fast. He ended up using 16lb as his neutral config. Moral of the story, being underweight can really screw up a dive, if not be outright dangerous.
@bryanboldt887 I'm saying the majority of diver incidents or rather deaths are from overweight ingredients and failure to have proper weight from the start. I do agree that not having proper weighting at the end can also be dangerous, but if you start with the right weight, you are at least closer to the mark. I've discussed proper weighting I'm both pre and end of the dive in other videos but did not mention the end of the dive here. I'm not 100% sure why I didn't think to include it here but perhaps I thought the section was getting long and needed the script to move a bit faster as I have been trying to make my videos shorter. Regardless, I do agree that a proper check does have both phases. It's good feedback, though. I added a pinned comment to help cover this gap, thank you!
👍🤿😎🇵🇭! Ah so right, practice, practice and more practice! But sometimes with different equipment comes more adjustments and even kind of a bit fun when you know to expect it!
Noting from feedback that it's good to note that a proper weight check involves a pre dive check and an end of the dive check done at the safety stop.
In the video, I described a pre five check but should have included mention of the additional safety stop check.
This is where you should be able to have enough weight when your tank I'd low on air to comfortably hover at 20 ft or 5 m for 3 minutes without needing to fin downward. If you cannot calmly and comfortably hover, you should add weight.
I describe the pre-dive check in the video.
Best of your videos!!!!!
Thank you, and I'll keep trying to increase the quality as I continue on the journey!
Excellent Video!
Thank you so much! I've been progressively trying to improve the quality of my videos, and glad you enjoyed this one!
Great job! Excellent presentation and delivery.
Thank you for the kind words, and I'm glad you enjoyed!
Good advice! Weight can change do to temperature also if you dive one week and the water temperature is warm and next week the water temperature drops. You will need to add weight if water temperature drops.
Thank you and great advice I missed! Weighting is definitely one of those things your constantly fiddling with!
Great info here!
I have a question. Let's say you use 10# in fresh water l, with a 3 mil wetsuit, How much more would I have to use in the ocean, with the same wetsuit?
Is there a formula for this?
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Ah, yes for calculating the weight you need, assuming you nailed the gear and weighting for fresh water, you need to weight you and all of your gear for fresh water and multiply that be 2.5% to get your answer.
It's usually 4 to 6 lbs more for most folk.
I don’t know why I can’t keep my fins up like that. I frog kick, but my legs are always pretty straight.
When frog finning, your legs are mostly straight until the end of the kick where you reset the fins and angle them out before the next kick, this also helps with stability before kicking again, but they do stay mostly straight during the kick.
A proper buoyancy check at the start of a dive with a full cylinder of air is completely wrong, bad information. The eye level float test is only relevant when the gear is at its lightest configuration, ie: end of dive after the air cylinder has been used down to the minimum reserve pressure/weight, or before a dive with a near empty cylinder.
Take for example a typical AL80 tank which contains over 6lb of air when full. Burn that air down to a nominal reserve and now you have consumed >5lb of air. Performing the suggested buoyancy check at the start of the dive while having a full cylinder will result in the diver being over 5lbs too light at the end of the dive and pretty much impossible to remain at a safety stop depth without external aid (hanging on to something or someone).
Thank you for your thoughts!
It's not wrong information, albeit a proper buoyancy check involves two components, one st the start and the end of the dive. I described the initial one here because the most diver deaths that I've read on are caused by way too high over weighting from the get-go. But yes, you are right that a proper buoyancy check involves a second part at the safety stop.
It is, of course, only possible to correct the second part on a sequential dive unless you have a dive sherpa while the first check can be corrected immediately before the dive.
@@itravelwisely What useful information is gained by performing your suggested pre-dive w/full-tank "buoyancy check"? Absolutely nothing, it is completely misleading and most likely to get noobs into trouble.
It would have been a great video and maybe the first of its kind if you demonstrated your first "test", then demonstrated what will happen for that diver at the end if dive at near reserve air pressure when 5lb (or more) underweight and trying to do a safety stop @ 15ft. Etch into people's minds the visual of the diver desperately clinging to an anchor line or kicking frantically with their fins upside down (feet up) while their rig is pulling them hard toward the surface.
I recently dove in tropical waters with an adhoc group of strangers at a dive resort. Nearing the 3/4 mark of our first dive, when I shallowed to nav over a high reef section, my assigned dive buddy tried to follow but went to the surface uncontrolled. He was a decent, very experienced diver and had purged all BCD air and lungs, but still went up like a cork. I swam up to him and handed him 2lbs from the 10lbs I was carrying for myself (for me 8lb was sufficient as I learned on my ending buoyancy check). That +2lbs was still not enough for him to get back down to 20ft or more to continue the last 1/4 of the dive, so I drove him back down so fast he signaled me to slow because his ears couldn't equalize that fast. He ended up using 16lb as his neutral config. Moral of the story, being underweight can really screw up a dive, if not be outright dangerous.
@bryanboldt887 I'm saying the majority of diver incidents or rather deaths are from overweight ingredients and failure to have proper weight from the start. I do agree that not having proper weighting at the end can also be dangerous, but if you start with the right weight, you are at least closer to the mark.
I've discussed proper weighting I'm both pre and end of the dive in other videos but did not mention the end of the dive here. I'm not 100% sure why I didn't think to include it here but perhaps I thought the section was getting long and needed the script to move a bit faster as I have been trying to make my videos shorter.
Regardless, I do agree that a proper check does have both phases.
It's good feedback, though. I added a pinned comment to help cover this gap, thank you!
👍🤿😎🇵🇭! Ah so right, practice, practice and more practice! But sometimes with different equipment comes more adjustments and even kind of a bit fun when you know to expect it!
Exactly, and getting to a balanced rig with every variable change eventually becomes quicker and easier with practice!