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Don, Q, In this situation, why do you need so much air in your wings at the surface ? Just to have that extra cm above the waterline ? My advice would be to try to balance the forward drop balancing , taking a somewhat recline position, legs more to the front. Matthias Don Burke schrieb: > A portion of my diving is not technical by any stretch of the > imagination and involves quite a bit of time bobbing on the surface waiting > for something (another diver, a tool, a camera, whatever). With the wing, > there is a tendency to pitch forward. > > My old jacket BC is much better on the surface, but I'd rather not deal with > it underwater. Besides, it is getting old and I'd rather not replace it > when it dies. > > I've been thinking of using one of those exercise weights on the tank, but > would rather not introduce another entanglement point. > > This is only a problem with a wetsuit. With the drysuit I just poof up the > suit, flatten the wing and maybe take a nap. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Don > > >From: "George Irvine" <girvine@be*.ne*> > >Reply-To: <trey@ne*.co*> > >To: "Don Burke" <donburke56@ne*.ne*>, <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > >Subject: RE: neutral AL 80's > >Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 07:25:37 -0500 > > > >Don, we don't put weights on tanks, we wear weightbelts. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Don Burke [mailto:donburke56@ne*.ne*] > >Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 9:03 AM > >To: techdiver@aquanaut.com > >Subject: Re: neutral AL 80's > > > > > >Susan, > > > >I have a set of regular 80 doubles and a regular 80 I use for a stage. > > > >On the stage, the bouyancy is about perfect. By the time I breathe it down > >to the point where the tank is positive enough overcome the weight of the > >regulator, the tank is pretty much empty anyway. I think additional weight > >would be a liability, but if for some reason I wanted it, strapping a > >weight > >on the tank would be my choice rather than a different tank. Lead is a > >more > >efficient ballasting material than aluminum. > > > >I only use the double 80s with a wetsuit, so the weightbelt must have > >enough > >weight on it so that I can get back to the surface in the event of a > >catastrophe like both first stages failing shut. Since I'm weighted to > >account for all of the fixed weights I carry, the belt must carry enough to > >compensate for the variables, namely the gas in the tanks and wetsuit > >compression. Making the tanks more negative means less weight on the belt > >and less wetsuit compression I can compensate for, so I can't safely go as > >deep. With the regular 80s, I can go deeper than my candyass is willing to > >deal with the temperature anyway, so perhaps there could be some uses > >there, > >although there would be more weight on the boat, which with my knees and > >back, is a showstopper. If I wanted to take some weight off the belt (like > >for a long, shallow dive), I'd just use a little v-weight with the regular > >80s. > > > >The only use I would have for a neutral 80 would be as a single tank on > >very > >shallow dives or as a hang tank and I'd use steel for those applications > >anyway. > > > >With the drysuit, I tried aluminum a couple of times. Steel is all I use > >anymore. > > > >Don > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <LouisianaLegal@ao*.co*> > >To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > >Sent: 03 January, 2002 16:51 > >Subject: neutral AL 80's > > > > > > > Does anyone have any experiences or comments on the Luxfer "neutral" 80 > >cubic > > > foot AL tanks? > > > > > > I was wondering if these would make good stage bottles and/or double > >tank > > > sets for the ocean. Does anyone know what the working pressure is on > >these > > > cylinders? > > > > > > Any information would be appreciated. Susan > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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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