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Jeff, The key is proper weighting, if you have too much weight with doubles then downsize your v-weight. If your doubles are so heavy that you don't need the v-weight and your still substantially negative then I guess you would have an exception. I don't have much more air in my suit than to take the pinch off. Almost all divers at any level (including instructors) make the mistake of being overweighted and they almost allways have themselves completely convinced that they have it dialed in, this leads to all kinds of CF's like volitle bouyancy, poor trim, overexertion, etc. When I descend all I do is simply add air to one place (less confusion) and when I ascend I do almost nothing but control my breathing (the suit if dialed in will be automatic) and my control is allways perfect. At 08:33 AM 12/17/97 -0500, Jeff Bentley wrote: >Jeremy, >How do you do this with full doubles and a full stage? You will have so much >gas in you Dsuit that you are an accident waiting to happen. > >Just go face down and watch your boots blow off your feet... > >I also use the method of just enough gas in the Drysuit to take >the pinch off when swimming. If I am scootering you can >put more gas in the suit and you don't care as much about the floaty >feet. > >later, >Jeff > >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). >> >> At 02:08 PM 12/12/97 EST, Paul Kaufman wrote: >> >Eric, >> > >> >I always leave the auto-deflate on my TLS-350 set almost fully open (least >> resistance). >> >Just add enough air to your suit to take off the squeeze. Then use your >> wings to adjust >> >your buoyancy. You have to remember that you are now dealing with two >> systems, but it >> >works better this way than trying to make all your buoyancy adjustments >> with the suit. >> > >> >Take care, >> > >> >Paul >> > >> >-- >> >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > > >-- >Jeff Bentley jbentley@cr*.co* http://www.crl.com/~jbentley > > > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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