What Weight Do You Need | Doing the Maths - Sidemounting.com

Have you ever gone diving with new equipment for the first time and wondered how much weight you will need? Well, that happened to us last week with our new Santi dry suits and thermal undergarments.

We could have dived over weighted and then taken weight off after the dive, but we wanted to see if we could better estimate what we “should” be using right from the start.

Here is a what we did and how we worked it out. We had to do some maths, but we tried to keep that simple and even use coloured pens!

This is part 1, stay tuned for part 2 where we go even more in depth :)

A big thank you to scubacourses for the cylinders and “correct” amount of lead weight we needed. Enjoy.

00:00 New Equipment? What Weight Do You Need?
00:31 We Weigh The Full Cylinders In-Water
01:58 Steel 12L Cylinders At 200 BAR Actual Weight
02:37 Air Weight We Expect To Loose During The Dive
03:48 Doing The Maths | Whiteboard
05:50 What We Expect The Tanks End Weight To Be
06:33 We Make Some Educated Surface Weight Checks
08:10 We Weigh The Near Empty Cylinders In-Water
09:15 Steel 12L Cylinders At 50 BAR Actual Weight
09:46 The Maths Worked! Who Knew!
10:32 Proof That Steel Cylinders Need Trimming
10:51 What To Do If You Use Different Tanks
12:00 The Conclusion - Why We Did This
13:06 Some Tips, Don't Freeze Your 1st Stages Like Us!

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