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Adri,

What about the possibility of failure for the drysuit ?

I am under the impression a tech diver needs redundant buoyancy capabilities.
If the bladder fails the drysuit 
provides lift and if the drysuit fails, the wings bring you up.

Doesn't that imply either system is independently capable of getting you to the
surface ?

Or should I just bring a lift bag (which I would anyway)?

Thanks,
Gary T. - Novice Diver/Recovering Stroke

> From: <Adriaan_Haine@ce*.be*>
> To: tomeasop@mi*.co*
> Subject: Re: Drysuit vs wetsuit WAS/Bouyancy Test
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> 
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> '<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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