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Jeremy- I think your key words are "shell suit" and "properly weighted". With a neoprene (I know, I know, a stroke suit, I'm saving up) this does not work because you can't be properly weighted to begin with. The other issue is when you are getting into lots of head-down attitudes (lobstering, wrecking) the less air in your suit the better because it all winds up in your feet anyways. Jim On 12/17/97 6:12 AM Jeremy Downs wrote: >When properly weighted & adjusted (this is the key) I allways have simpler >and better control when using only the suit and completely ignoring my wings >during the dive. With this method your bouyancy is basicly automatic (with >shell suits) and you have less items to worry about. Everybody I have talked >into trying this has not gone back and their bouyancy control and awareness >(one less distraction) has improved. > >I even had a former student last month come up and ask me about how to use a >shell suit he had rented for the weekend so I briefed him on this technique >and went with him on his first dive to make sure everything went ok. This >was his first time ever in a drysuit and only about his 20th dive ever. I'm >not overexaggerating at all here but within fifteen minutes his control was >as good as most seasoned divers I know (with or without a drysuit). > >I know George & Jim both don't advise this method but I hope they give it a >real try (this is about the only thing that I don't agree with them on). I >really can't say the same for neoprene suits since I have never tried one >and their characteristics are different (although two converts have been >neoprene users). ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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