Arkman
Contributor
This year I've really been working on buoyancy and trim. I have been trying to do weight checks as I dial stuff in and I think overall my weight is getting closer.
Last weekend I was on dive and the viz was crap and nothing to see, so I started messing around just trying to hover. Not moving my feet or my hands and taking slow breaths trying to basically just sit in one spot. What I found was I kept going head way down and listing to the right side a bit. This lead to me sort of diving down in the water column when I didn't want to. After trying it a few times I was able to adjust my BC to get rid of the listing for the most part, but I still kept going head down.
I'm in a drysuit but I don't think it is my feet causing me to go up. I didn't have much air in the suit and when doing this test a couple times I would try and remove as much air as I could from my feet and keep them horizontal and still went head down.
Now I get that If I move my weight towards my legs that would change my center of gravity, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on the best way to actually do this. I've got my weight spread out between a DUI harness and a little in my BC weight pockets. I used to use some in my trim pockets by my shoulder blades but earlier in the year I found that it was making my go even more head down.
I can't lower my BC towards my hips at all, doing that would cause it to be too loose on my body. The harness is also adjusted so it as low as it goes. Maybe I need a longer one to get the weight closer to my hips??
Like many of the parts of my diving, I have a decent idea what I'm doing wrong, but really no understanding of how to fix it.
Last weekend I was on dive and the viz was crap and nothing to see, so I started messing around just trying to hover. Not moving my feet or my hands and taking slow breaths trying to basically just sit in one spot. What I found was I kept going head way down and listing to the right side a bit. This lead to me sort of diving down in the water column when I didn't want to. After trying it a few times I was able to adjust my BC to get rid of the listing for the most part, but I still kept going head down.
I'm in a drysuit but I don't think it is my feet causing me to go up. I didn't have much air in the suit and when doing this test a couple times I would try and remove as much air as I could from my feet and keep them horizontal and still went head down.
Now I get that If I move my weight towards my legs that would change my center of gravity, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on the best way to actually do this. I've got my weight spread out between a DUI harness and a little in my BC weight pockets. I used to use some in my trim pockets by my shoulder blades but earlier in the year I found that it was making my go even more head down.
I can't lower my BC towards my hips at all, doing that would cause it to be too loose on my body. The harness is also adjusted so it as low as it goes. Maybe I need a longer one to get the weight closer to my hips??
Like many of the parts of my diving, I have a decent idea what I'm doing wrong, but really no understanding of how to fix it.