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>Assuming the guy was diving a decent two-piece (jacket and john) wetsuit
>(which he needed for the water temps Dan is reporting), he is going to need
>something like 40 lbs of negative buoyancy to get himself and his suit
>neutral at the surface. Some of that will be in his tankage and other
>gear, the remainder will be on his weightbelt. Assuming double 100s, a
>steel 72 and an aluminum 80, he's carrying about 28 lbs of gas, which the
>wings are lifting at the start of the dive. At 250 fsw, call it 8.6 ata,
>for all practical purposes the suit has gone to zero buoyancy, maybe even
>negative, and his wings now have to "take up the slack" and lift that 40
>lbs.
>
>We're talking almost 70 lbs of required lift, just to get neutral at the
>bottom.
Wrong.
No wonder they can sell bondage wings.
Who taught you this crap?
Neutral is neutral.
I met an experianced, tech-trained, tri-mix certified diver on a boat
last November who believed the same bullshit.
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"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you
want to live forever?"
-First Sergeant Dan Daly, 1918
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