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eric, one of the most important things is to make sure you can comfortably preform your decompression stops at the end of your dive when your air tanks are relatively empty and more buoyant . If you are too buoyant to decompress you will be miserable and struggling to stay down may mess up your decompression , and will increase your gas consumption .All those huge lungs fulls of air as you struggle just makes you more bouyant and aggravates the situation. you want to be able to keep enough air or argon in the dry suit so you stay warm . the whole point to having a dry suit is the insulation from the cold water that the gas in the suit gives you . the more "fluffed up" you are the warmer you will stay ......but you have to balance the need to swim against the maximum inflation of the suit . how bulky do you want to be ? all that air needs lead or steel back plates, tanks and light battery packs to drag it down . In the real world everyone dives slightly overweigted so that they can be certain they have enough negativeness to decompress and keep a good amount of air in their suit . you compensate for the extra weight at the start of the dive by adding air to your buoyancy compensator and to your suit . dump air from the buoyancy compensator as the tanks get lighter . keep as much gas in the suit as is comfortable to swim with and keep warm It takes some practice to avoid filling up your feet with air and getting dragged to the surface be careful , you may need to buy new finns to fit over your dry suit boots , you may want to use ankle weights as part of the additional weight especially at first to help prevent the blown up feet syndrome . practice somewhere safe . good luck -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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