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T- I have to agree with you about cave diving since I do not have any experience with this. But it does work fine with doubles, you just wear less lead. Now there does come a time when you get the diver that is completely covered with tanks and other crap where this might not work as well. How often is this the case though. As far as having control you still have this at your fingertips. Your wings/BC are still there you just are not screwing with them as often, in fact bouyancy is second nature so your hands stay free to do more important things (like getting in the way ;-)). At 12:05 PM 12/17/97 -0600, Thomas E O'Connor wrote: >JD, >I think your ideas are appropriate for open water, single tank diving. I >strongly disaggree with using the drysuit as one's primary bouyancy >control while cave diving, or while wearing multiple tanks. Inadvertant >changes in profile brought about by changes in current, task >requirements, emergency procedures, or passageway configuration can lead >to catastrophic bouyancy problems when using the dry suit to support the >weight of doubles, stage bottles, and canister lights. Rapid, >fingertip bouyancy control by the diver and his potential rescuer are a >must in unfriedly environments. My single set of wings meets this >criterion better than my partially opened tls drysuit valve, even when I >am trimmed out perfectlyt. This does not even address the problems >assosciated with dumping one's precious argon with changes in depth. >Best of luck. Keep your feet down! >Tom O'Connor > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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