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Trey wrote:

>For dry suit diving anywhere, the PST offers a better buoyancy fit as a pair
>are -9 in fresh vs neutral for the Faber. To offset a proper shell suit with
>insulation takes between 20 and 26 pounds, and that is achieved by the
>tanks, the plate, the light, and the regs, leaving the diver neutral at all
>depths with little or no gas, and negative by the amount of the gas when
>full, plus or minus a little depending on the insulation and the diver, with
>the light being droppable in an emergency to get up.


Now I'm completely confused!  The pst site has these figures:
LP-104	104 CU.FT.	8.00	26.19	45 LBS	-0.7 LBS

which would make a set of doubles only 1.5 pounds negative!

Are we talking about the same tank?
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Paul B.
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