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Hello guys,

I'd like to consult two questions - a way you shoot your lift bags and some
trim problems.
I was taught to do it like this:

- deflate your suit and inflate BC to keep buyocancy
- attach bag to reel or spool
- using inflator dump your BC into bag. You've just transfered your gas from
one place to another, but volume stays the same so your buyocancy stays the
same
- let the bag go and by changing tension of spool or reel you can control
your buyocancy. Other hand can add missing gas to your suit or BC

Is there some other (better ?) way?


Curently I'm diving with heavy steel backplate and 2x15L steel tanks. With
this configuration when empty I'm berfectly balanced so I have to add just
light canister and 3kg of weight to compensate for used gas weight.
I'm rigged DIR style. Crotch strap is tight, metal buckle on my stomach
also. Shoulders have some slack to let me in/out on the surface. But when I
turn and swim on my side, because of heavy bottles my rig is slipping to the
side and try to turns me upside down.
Before backplate, I was using Zeagle, which was pretty tighted on me, so it
was more confortable to prevent bottles from slipping. How you guys do it
with backplate ?

Regards

  Jozef Gliviak
  Slovakia
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