Hi Tobin
I'd like to ask fro some help with my buoyancy calculations and some advice afterwards if you don't mind.
I dive with a two piece wetsuit whose buoyancy I measured today to be ~ 8 kgs (~18 lbs).
I dive a Faber 12L 232 bar (~ 3410 psi) cylinder and, although I checked the Faber website, I could not find buoyancy characteristics for it. So I am assuming it is about -2 lbs empty and -8 lbs full (numbers garnered from numerous threads on your forum).
My BCD is a jacket style Seaquest so it should be about +4 lbs yes?
I dive with 10 kgs (~ 22 lbs) of lead in seawater.
These numbers don't add up for me. In this setup I am neutral (I did a buoyancy check today) however I have 26 lbs (-22 lead -2 cylinder -2 reg) in negative buoyancy and only 22 in positive (18 wetsuit + 4 BCD). I will assume that my weighting is correct and that the difference comes from estimation errors. For example I did the buoyancy check of my wetsuit in pool water so in seawater it might be closer to 20 lbs. Plus the characteristics of my tank and BCD are also just guesses so I will ignore the difference of 4 lbs.
I am 6' 2". All of this taken into account, what sort of a rig would you suggest for me.
Many thanks for any help you can give.
I'd like to ask fro some help with my buoyancy calculations and some advice afterwards if you don't mind.
I dive with a two piece wetsuit whose buoyancy I measured today to be ~ 8 kgs (~18 lbs).
I dive a Faber 12L 232 bar (~ 3410 psi) cylinder and, although I checked the Faber website, I could not find buoyancy characteristics for it. So I am assuming it is about -2 lbs empty and -8 lbs full (numbers garnered from numerous threads on your forum).
My BCD is a jacket style Seaquest so it should be about +4 lbs yes?
I dive with 10 kgs (~ 22 lbs) of lead in seawater.
These numbers don't add up for me. In this setup I am neutral (I did a buoyancy check today) however I have 26 lbs (-22 lead -2 cylinder -2 reg) in negative buoyancy and only 22 in positive (18 wetsuit + 4 BCD). I will assume that my weighting is correct and that the difference comes from estimation errors. For example I did the buoyancy check of my wetsuit in pool water so in seawater it might be closer to 20 lbs. Plus the characteristics of my tank and BCD are also just guesses so I will ignore the difference of 4 lbs.
I am 6' 2". All of this taken into account, what sort of a rig would you suggest for me.
Many thanks for any help you can give.