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Diving dry would be the best way to go, unless you are someplace really warm where you would overheat in a drysuit. By realy warm I mean like Bikini, where water temp is 85 degrees F at 10 fsw and at 180fsw. Adriaan_Haine@ce*.be* wrote: > 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 -- Guns and Armour of SCAPA FLOW 1998 Underwater Photographic Survey of Historic Wrecks http://www.gunsofscapa.demon.co.uk -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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