So once warm and no squeeze they teach adding weight to use the wing?
BC for buoyancy, not the suit.
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So once warm and no squeeze they teach adding weight to use the wing?
So if I take off the squeeze and am warm and neutrally buoyant what now?BC for buoyancy, not the suit.
I dont know about you but I would keep divingSo if I take off the squeeze and am warm and neutrally buoyant what now?
I guess that’s my point.I dont know about you but I would keep diving
No, the weighting is the same in either case. The thing being compensated for is the weight of the gas yet to be breathed, so the difference in approaches is most pronounced at the beginning of the dive. Then you would have an extra 2 liters of air (AL80) either running around in the suit or nicely contained near your center of gravity in the wing. Your choice.once warm and no squeeze they teach adding weight to use the wing?
I do that with my lungs, suit provides the perfect center of gravity, that’s how I do it and I admit I may not know what I’m doing, only been diving for 50years. Dry for 20No, the weighting is the same in either case. The thing being compensated for is the weight of the gas yet to be breathed, so the difference in approaches is most pronounced at the beginning of the dive. Then you would have an extra 2 liters of air (AL80) either running around in the suit or nicely contained near your center of gravity in the wing. Your choice.
Another question concerns me, how do you buy the diving gear you want when dive shops do not offer what you want? I bought my regulator, octopus and dive computer from manufacturers' websites, not scuba wholesale stores, yet dive shops discourage online purchases.
I understand the importance of getting a feel and fit on items such as exposure suits, boots, fins, masks, undergarments and so on, but what if a particular item is not available to try on? If you buy directly from the manufacturer online, getting the gear you want would not be a problem.
Depends on the water temperature and length of the dive. If it’s cold, say less than 10 degrees, no leaks are acceptable. Warmer than that then small leaks are tolerable, but not a full soaking. For long dives it’s the time you’re hanging around at decompression doing nothing that sucks the heat from you.Dry suit should be dry... I would not dive with leaky suit