Pixel - 5/12/2013 11:01 AM
I never got all the tech weight stuff talk when I started. I got told rule of thumb: 10% of your body weight + 2kg if you’re wearing a 7mm semi-dry. (I’m sure many of the instructors/dm’s etc on this forum are now horrified) And of course the one where you get in the water with weight, float, and then throw whatever you don’t need back on the boat.
A good tip also: take a shopping bag down with you. If you find you can get down, but then don’t stay down due to not enough weight, you simply fill the shopping bag with sand and tie it on your weight belt. (that comes out of an instructors mouth, who on a dive ended up giving all his weights to students and was left with bags and rocks he found)