Divetek Compensating Buckle
The Divetek Compensating Buckle is under the Weights and Weightbelts category and is available at our Dive Shop. For more info on this item of Dive Gear, please see below:
Tired of adjusting your weight belt underwater due to wet suit compression at depth? This spring loaded compensating stainless steel weight belt buckle is what you want. The buckle threads onto standard 2″ (5cm) nylon webbing. When you tighten your weight belt to your waist prior to the dive, buckle’s spring stretches-out to keep the belt snug. As you descend and your wetsuit compresses, a normal weight belt becomes loose. Not the belt equipped with this buckle. It’s spring compresses with your wet suit, continuously compensating for the loss of thickness, resulting in your weightbelt staying tight around you waist. When you start to ascend, the spring re-expands to compensate for the expanding wetsuit, keeping your belt comfortable and snug from the start to the finish of your dive.
- Depth Compensating Weight Belt Buckle
- Threads on Standard 2″ (5 cm) Weight Belt Webbing
- Spring Loaded System
- Corrosion Resistant Stainless Steel
- Descent: Buckle Spring Compresses with Wet Suit Upon Descent
- During: Buckle Spring Continuously-Compensates During Dive
- Ascent: Buckle Spring Re-Expands to Compensate for the Expanding Wet Suit
Weights and Weightbelts:
Weights are critical to Scuba diving. Clients need to be correctly weighted in order to enjoy the dive.
Most clients make the error of placing too many weights on their weight belts. You now end up struggling on the dive because you are overweighted.
Remember that the purpose of the weights is not to pull you down, but to compensate for the buoyancy of the wetsuit. The average person is neutrally buoyant in a costume in the pool. We simply add the weights to aid us in taking the wetsuit down which is incredibly buoyant.
We stand by the philosophy of diving with as little weights as possible so that you don’t have to keep inflating your BC at depth and drastically increasing your Drag Profile underwater.
See our Buy the right Gear page regarding Weights for more info: https://divetek.co.za/buy-the-right-gear/buy-the-right-gear-weight-and-weightbelts/
Oscar Delport –
This product makes re-adjusting your weight belt a thing of the past. Would recommend it to all serious divers.