The only time I ever "dumped weight" at depth was back in 72 with the old style over center bail release, it snagged on some wreakage and opened, I was able to swim and pull myself back down to the belt :) I added a D ring over the bail so that wouldn’t happen again!
My daughter practiced dropping her intergrated weights over a shallow yellow trainning platform so they would be easy to find, you could drop soft weights in a pool but they would frown on you dropping hard weights on the tile$!
The Public Safety Divers in the story were trying to swim up without dumping any or all of their weights and sadly didn’t make it. The other divers in the rescue unit found they couldn’t dump their weights either, that’s why I started this thread about practicing dumping your weights.
Let’s start another thread about other praticing other skills