[underwater exhalation]
This video is going to be a demonstration of weight belt removal and replacement on the bottom.
Reasons you need to be able to do this: during a high entry, when you hit the water
your weight belt may get bumped a little loose and you might need to tighten it back up.
As you descend in the water column the neoprene that you are wearing compresses and you physically get smaller as you go to depth
so you may need to adjust your weight belt as well.
When you get out of the water, into a small boat, it is much easier to hand your weight belt to the people in the boat to climb inside.
So these are just a couple of examples.
Weight belt: remove and replace. First thing we need to do is to let all the air out of our Buoyancy Compensator or BCD.
You want to be as negative as possible on the bottom when you are doing this skill.
With your right hand you are going to reach around the front, you are going to pop open the buckle
and as you take the weight belt off make sure and keep it on top of you. Keep the weight on top of you during this entire skill.
Make the equipment do the work.
When you go to put your weight belt back on
you roll away from the belt
keeping the weight on top of you; make the weight belt do all the work. You slide the weight belt up
and then, before you do the buckle,
make sure that your gauge console or your alternate air source or octopus isn't trapped underneath the belt.
The trick here is making the equipment do all the work for you.
we'll take a look at this from another view. This is a side view.
Same thing: all the air out of your BC.
With your right hand, reach around the front,
pop the buckle
but immediately put the weight back on top of you. It's really important that you do this with the proper technique.
These are light belts here, these might be 12 or 16 pound belts. When you are doing this skill in cold water
you might be wearing a 25 to 35 pound weight belt. The technique is massively important then.
Again, make sure not to trap your gauge console or alternate air source or octopus.
And there you go, that was a good example of weight belt: remove and replace on the bottom.