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Jeremy, God almighty you are a dumbfuck! Your problem is that you are an "open fucking water diving" pundit. Shut the fuck up and read the list for a while.. When you actually dive a set of 95s or 104s with a stage give us a ring. You have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. (Damn... I sound like George..) Jeff Jeremy Downs wrote: > 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'. -- 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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