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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:37:29 -0800
To: Peter Fjelsten <fjelsten@ma*.do*.dk*>,
     Jim Cobb
From: "Kevin Connell" <kevin@nw*.co*>
Subject: Re: How to shoot a lift bag / trim problem
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
That pretty funny peter, where do you think jim dives?  Florida?

At 12:53 PM 3/15/2000 +0100, Peter Fjelsten wrote:
>Den 14-03-00 11:45 -0500 skrev Jim Cobb (At 14-03-00 11:45 -0500 Jim Cobb 
>wrote)...
>>Sounds to me that you have too much air in your drysuit. You need to keep as
>>little air in your DS as possible and use your wings to control your
>>buoyancy. Then you are "hanging" from your doubles and and your rig won't
>>slip.
>
>I continually read this on TD.
>
>OK you warm water people - when you dive really cold water you wear more 
>undergarments than in 20 C water. Therefore the suit holds more gas than 
>in warm water. Also, you want to keep a fair amount of gas in the suit to 
>stay warm. Therefore "as little as possible" to prevent squeeze definitely 
>is less than to keep warm.
>
>Please keep this in mind.
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  NW Labor Systems, Inc
  http://www.nwls.com

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