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Okay, I'm not an experienced, tech-trained, tri-mix certified diver. Please tell me why "neutral is neutral." I don't understand how you can disregard the loss of buoyancy at depth of the wetsuit in this scenario. =Art= At 12:00 AM 1/19/98 -0800, Jammer wrote: >>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. Art Greenberg artg@ec*.ne* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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