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You want to give me a hint as to what I should be rethinking.  Buoyancy is a
function of displacement and weight, weight of the displaced fluid and the
weight of the object displacing the fluid.  A dry suit has air inside
displacing water, if water where to completely take the place of the air
then the dry suit/diver combo would be more negative after the flood than
before.  More than likely a bit colder, too.  Are you talking about the
buoyancy of water in water, of course that's zero (assuming same salinity,
mineral content, etc.), but the net sum change of the diver/dry suit combo
is to become more negative.

Keith

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rogers, Thomas A" <Thomas.Rogers@PS*.Bo*.co*>
To: "'Keith Taylor'" <greymouser@mi*.co*>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:30 PM
Subject: RE: Dry Suit Flood ?


> You should really rethink this!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Taylor [mailto:greymouser@mi*.co*]
>
> Half right there Mr. Elmore, bouyancy is a function of displacement AND
> weight.  If you substitute water in your dry suit for air, since water
> weighs more your bouyancy will become more negative.  So if a dry suit
were
> to "completely" flood (as in Mr. Kenney's example) you would not be able
to
> control bouyancy with your dry suit, all bouyancy compesation at this time
> would be from the wings.

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