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I was at Dutch Springs yesterday, and bumped into 3 guys taking fundies. One was an instructor (for other agencies), all were experienced divers. We talked a little bit and they mentioned having to relearn various things. In particular, the guys said it was demanding to learn to use the drysuit primarily for buoyancy because they were used to just using the wing for that. To be clear, they said it was (and always has been) a combination of wing and drysuit for buoyancy control, but they were taught now to use the wing to offset the buoyancy swing from the tanks, and the drysuit for everything else, i.e. as the primary buoyancy control device.
I took my DIRF in a wetsuit, so I missed out on the GUE drysuit approach, but I kind of got the sense reading the internets that DIR-types preferred to use mainly the wing for buoyancy control, and the drysuit mainly to stay dry, as backup buoyancy, and usually just inflated enough to take the squeeze off.
So what's the deal?
I took my DIRF in a wetsuit, so I missed out on the GUE drysuit approach, but I kind of got the sense reading the internets that DIR-types preferred to use mainly the wing for buoyancy control, and the drysuit mainly to stay dry, as backup buoyancy, and usually just inflated enough to take the squeeze off.
So what's the deal?