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>Sounds to me that you have too much air in your drysuit. No way. My buyocancy is OK. Using steel backplate and steel twin 15L I'm perfectly balanced when my bottles are full. So I take only my light canister and 3kg weight to compensate for weight of breathed gas. There is only about 4L of gas in my BC and it is empty at the end of the dive. >Hmmmm, this means that as your bag is heading to the surface, you are >heading towards the bottom. No. You are using your finger to change tension of your reel and keep you balanced and during few seconds you put gas back to your suit. >just hold the bag over next to my reg (which is still in my mouth) >and exhale into the bag. Doing it like this, it definitely works, but you don't have time to check your reel and line before you let it go. Once you exhale, the bag starts to pull you up. And you must release it. What you gonna do if in meantime your line got entangled in something (e.g regulator ...) Using technique I described you can fill the bag without changing your buyocancy, check everthing with bag upright and ready to go and then you just release it ... Just some note to my technique - it is not necesary to dump your suit in case you've got enough gas in your BC to fill your bag. Usualy I've got so little gas in BC and suit that I must combine these two volumes to put enough gas to my bag. Regards Jozef Gliviak Slovakia Then up it gos and hopefully your reel is clean. 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. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/ > From: "Gliviak, Jozef" <Jozef.Gliviak@co*.co*> > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:12:26 -0000 > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: How to shoot a lift bag / trim problem > > 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 > -- > 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'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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