cruisekingkris
Contributor
After two and a half seasons with my drysuit (been diving wet for 16 years) I can’t seem to get comfortable with drysuit squeeze. I don’t know if it’s just me not liking the feeling around my chest cavity or if I’m doing something wrong.
When I descend (typically doing dives in the 100’-130’ range) I try and put only the bare minimum amount of air in my suit to reduce squeeze. Once hitting my bottom depth I will even out with my wing. This will leave me not enjoying the feeing on my lungs from the suit squeeze. I’m an asthmatic and this instantly makes my mind think of the onset of an attack. Side note, I haven’t had an asthma attack in 7-8 years and I haven’t used an inhaler either. So by this I know it’s not a lung issue. Plus when I dive wet or without any protection I don’t have these issues.
So if I try to be comfortable on the descent and add enough air to remove the squeeze I can feel the bubble move through out the suit when I do my dive. I’m diving the north East wrecks and tend to be poking my head and body in holes to look for critters and what not. I do find my self feet above head while searching around since most wrecks here are wire dragged or really old and flattened out. This obviously makes my feet super buoyant. Thus making me need to reset position and even out the gas in the suit. Is this normal, is this much air normal, do people just deal with suit squeeze while diving and not add much air.
I’ve tried diving with minimal air in the suit and enough air in the suit and they each pose their own problems. What do people do??? Is wreck drysuit diving different from cave drysuit diving. Does each have there own trick? If I’m going to start doing longer dives during deco training, I need to figure the squeeze out. Ugh!!
When I descend (typically doing dives in the 100’-130’ range) I try and put only the bare minimum amount of air in my suit to reduce squeeze. Once hitting my bottom depth I will even out with my wing. This will leave me not enjoying the feeing on my lungs from the suit squeeze. I’m an asthmatic and this instantly makes my mind think of the onset of an attack. Side note, I haven’t had an asthma attack in 7-8 years and I haven’t used an inhaler either. So by this I know it’s not a lung issue. Plus when I dive wet or without any protection I don’t have these issues.
So if I try to be comfortable on the descent and add enough air to remove the squeeze I can feel the bubble move through out the suit when I do my dive. I’m diving the north East wrecks and tend to be poking my head and body in holes to look for critters and what not. I do find my self feet above head while searching around since most wrecks here are wire dragged or really old and flattened out. This obviously makes my feet super buoyant. Thus making me need to reset position and even out the gas in the suit. Is this normal, is this much air normal, do people just deal with suit squeeze while diving and not add much air.
I’ve tried diving with minimal air in the suit and enough air in the suit and they each pose their own problems. What do people do??? Is wreck drysuit diving different from cave drysuit diving. Does each have there own trick? If I’m going to start doing longer dives during deco training, I need to figure the squeeze out. Ugh!!