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Your DS dump is automatic, how could using your BCD be easier? (you just have one other thing to mess with down there - keep it simple) Also use the gas shift to your advantage in getting a better trim (you can also pull out ankle weights, gators, etc). Fix your neckseal, if it won't hold any pressure then how can you use it as a primary or backup?? At 04:19 PM 11/25/97 -0500, Egil Aabel Naesguthe wrote: >Yes, indeed, I was thinking about including this "false sense of security" >as well but forgot while I was writing the rest. I do, however, like to >adjust buoyancy using the BC rather than my suit. I find it faster and it >can be done in more different positions than when venting from the suit. >Also, I absolutely hate the feeling of the gas running back and forth >inside the suit (a problem when inflated more than the minimum amount). >Besides, my neckseal is trimmed so loose that it can only handle a small >pressure gradient anyway, but that was obviously my choice. > >Egil. > >On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Jeremy Downs wrote: >> Weightbelts are only good for non deco openwater diving. What good does >> ditching your belt do if your in a overhead enviroment or have a deco >> obligation? If your diving with one and it fails (as I have seen many times) >> then your really screwed. > >==================================================================== > Egil Aabel Naesguthe > > Queen's University E-mail: egil@me*.qu*.ca* > Dept. of Mechanical Engineering > Kingston, ON Phone: +1 613-545 6730 > K7L 3N6 > Canada Fax: +1 613-545 6489 >==================================================================== > > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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