Scuba Diving Is Less Stressful When Your Weight Is Right
One of the most important scuba diving skills is proper weighting.
If you carry too much weight on a dive you fight to stay off the bottom. The extra weight drags you downward, and you must constantly adjust the air in your buoyancy control device (BCD), trying to keep yourself at an even level.
Plunging uncontrollably into the bottom kills coral. It stirs up the bottom (clouding the water).
Strap on too little weight and you float straight back to the surface every time you try to descend to diving …