Poe Lim wrote:

> > Then someone sent a message that, for me, was a show stopper.  He
> > said that
> > the buoyancy of neoprene at the surface (no compression) is
approximately
> > equal to twice it's dry weight.  So I got on my bathroom scale with my
>
> But that does not help with your weighing, as your personal bouyancy sans
> wetsuit will also come into it...

It may not help those who have not refined their weighting in any
configuration, but it helps me tremendously.  I refined my buoyancy in my
normal configuration years ago.  I'm a warm water diver, normally using no
thermal protection at all.  My biggest weighting problem has always been
figuring out how much weight to add when I did what, for me, is unusual,
wearing a wetsuit.  My wetsuit, worn maybe a dozen times since I've had it,
is a 3mm.  It's been so long since I used it that I'm no longer sure what
weight I wear with it.  Thanks to this rule, I can guess better.  If I
happen to wear a thicker wetsuit sometime, something that becomes
increasingly likely now that I'm traveling to dive more often, I still have
a way to guess better.  Personally, I'm impressed.  Perhaps I'm easily
impressed.

Lee