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You can always tell the divers who use their drysuit for primary buoyancy rather than their wings. They are the ones you see heading towards the surface feet-first like some sort of polish Polaris missile. Use the wings, Ted. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/ > From: "Ted Phelps" <tphelps@ph*.co*> > Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:04:34 -0800 > To: "Peter Fjelsten" <fjelsten@ma*.do*.dk*>, "Jim Cobb" > <cobber@ma*.ci*.co*> > Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > Subject: RE: How to shoot a lift bag / trim problem > > I'd really appreciate some feedback here, because I get conflicting opinions > both here and amongst the divers with whom I hang out. Some say to use the > drysuit for buoyancy, leaving the BC deflated, except on the surface, while > others are saying nearly the opposite. I've done two drysuit dives, having > done all of my other dives in Hawaii. I'm back home in California, and my > drysuit is on order. Can anyone give me some guidance? > > Ted > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Fjelsten [mailto:fjelsten@ma*.do*.dk*] > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 3:54 AM > To: Jim Cobb > Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: How to shoot a lift bag / trim problem > > 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. > > -- > 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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