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Jim, I wasn't arguing the case against dry suits. I'm with you on that one. You said: > And how do you make yourself neutral at the bottom with no air in your > > primary BC and with steel doubles & steel stages? > Same as you would with aluminium ones, I expect. After all, steel or aluminium, I'm just as negative if I was weighted correctly at the start. > But in an emergency you can ditch the non-essentials, hammers, > crowbars, > lights, etc. while I would imagine you would not want to ditch your > stages. > And what difference does having aluminium or steel tanks make? Surely the message is about being weighted properly, which I agree is critical, and that arguing about steel or aluminium is missing the point. Personally I'd be unwilling to do any dive that required stages in a wet-suit because, in order to get my weight right for stops, I enter the water about 25 pounds negative due to weight of gas. I'd be even heavier at depth due to suit compression. In a dry suit I don't have the additional weight AND I've got the redundant buoyancy. Regards, Ewan -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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