dive scuba gear
How much should you be able to lift, to scuba dive?
Im thin and i cant really lift a lot(i can bench around 70 pounds) . and i was told you have to be able to lift alot because the gear is heavy
This is a very common question when people are looking at getting into the sport of scuba diving.
The total weight of the equipment that I wear in caribbean diving is about 72 pounds. This is including the scuba cylinder, Buoyancy compensator jacket, regulator, wetsuit, 12 pounds of weight, mask, fins, snorkel, and scuba booties. This sounds like a lot of weight all together but you are not putting it all on in one movement. The heaviest piece that you may have to lift at one time would be the Scuba cylinder and the buoyancy compensator jacket that it gets attached to.
A common size scuba cylinder weighs about 32 pounds empty and 35 pounds full. The jacket that I use weighs about 7 pounds and the regulator weight about 4 pounds which means I only have to lift 46 pounds at any one time.
The nice thing is that I only have to lift it high enough for the person that I am diving with to hold it so that I can slip into the jacket. The jacket is designed with ergonomics in mind. It distributes the weight of the cylinder like a like a good camping backpack so you don’t feel like you have 46 pounds hanging on your back.
On boats you usually slip into the jacket while sitting on a bench so the only lifting done is by standing up.
This is done just prior to making your entry into the water. Once you are in the water you don’t feel the weight thanks to Archimedes Principle regarding buoyancy (see the second link for buoyancy).
The heaviest point of lifting would be when I have to put all my stuff in my equipment bag to take to and from the boat. I guess that’s why my equipment bag has wheels.
If there is a Scuba diving store near where you live, go there and ask if you could try a cylinder, regulator and jacket to get a feel of the weight.
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