Weights and Belts

A secure weight belt or weight harness is a crucial safety item for any diver, it has to be able to release instantly in any emergency allowing you to drop your weights but be locked enough not to come loose during your normal diving activities.

Diving weights are used to act against the buoyancy of other diving equipment, such as diving suits and diving cylinders. The diver must be weighted so that he is negatively buoyant by default, and then adjust the amount of air in his Buoyancy Compensation Device (BCD) in order to achieve neutral or positive buoyancy as and when required.