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AJ --- with a dry suit you will not need more than 45-55 lbs of lift -- anything more means you got sold the wrong set of wings -- or you are carrying way too much shit on your body --- whoever taught you that you need a 100 lbs wing set needs to go get some training --- there is no way you need to have that much lift regards Joel At 05:09 PM 5/18/1999 -0400, A.J. Murphy wrote: >How much lift do you need out of a set of wings? Is there a formula to >calculate the amount of lift required for a particular gear >configuration? Do you add up the weight of your kit when above water or >below when it is almost neutral? >I dive square profiles in the North Atlantic (USA). I use double 85 ft3 >L.P steels (76 lb. full) or 112 ft3 L.P. steels (98 lb. full) for deeper >dives and a neoprene dry suit. I have been taught that I need close to >100 lb. lift capacity out of a set of wings. Yet I see some of you >folks jumping off the boat with 50-60 lb. lift wings and your tanks are >the same or larger than mine. What am I missing here? >Dive safe! > >A.J. > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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