Description The NEW redesigned for 2015 SEASOFT FREE™ Diving Vest was developed to liberate you from wearing a weight belt while “free diving”. The FREE holds up to 40 lbs. of weight, fits divers who weigh 100 to 280 lb. and will fit a smaller or larger diver with the optional cummerbunds. Be FREE of a weight belt while free diving, get the SEASOFT FREE™ Diving Vest. WARNING: We have recently become aware of an abalone harvesting method known as “rock-picking” in N. California. This involves a person searching for abalone on a low tide while over-weighted with weights using a wetsuit, mask, and a float tube but no fins. They search for abalone through the mask and then “scramble” while heavily over-weighted and breath-hold to harvest the abalone. This is highly dangerous, risky and unsafe. This person has 1. No air source; 2. No means of propulsion (fins); and 3. No flotation device (BC); At low tide you have an uneven bottom that could be over your head, there are kelp forests that could entangle you, and there are rogue waves that can sweep you into water over your head. It is just not worth it. A few abalone are not worth dying for! SEASOFT SCUBA will not knowingly sell any diving products to a “rock-picker”. Free diving with fins for abalone can be a fun and challenging sport, why not learn this sport from a local expert instructor?
