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'<SNIP> At 200 fsw the wet suit will be almost fully compressed and will
have lost almost all of its additional buoyancy. In order to get down there
in
the first place with this wet suit you needed to add some lead on a belt,
or
elsewhere. The lead is still just as negative at 200 fsw but the suit is
now not
as positive. If your wings cannot provide the needed lift to get you up to
where
the wet suit starts to add some buoyancy again, you're stuck on the
bottom.<SNIP>'


Why not leave the wetsuits to the recreational divers. With the amount of
time a diver on atechnical dive spends
 in the water, I feel  a drysuit (made of trilaminate or some other
none-compressable material) makes more sense.
 By doing so, you virtually eliminate the 'cold' factor, and it is much
safer in the buoyancy control area, since the
 buoyancy of this type of suit does not change with the depth.

Greetings,
Adri Haine


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