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Integrated Weights Vest: Helpful or “a Piece of Junk”?

from the May, 2012 issue of Undercurrent  

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Dear Ben,

Regarding the story in your April issue, about the death of the police officer whose power inflator failed, when all one needs to get to the surface is to swim up to it, then the macho sounding "power inflator" isn't required.

When divers are not properly ballasted (like they're all wearing 40-plus pounds of lead), they are a menace to themselves and anyone in the water with them. If someone needs air admitted to a vest in order to get to the surface, then he or she is overweighted, and that's wrong....