EireDiver606
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You’re right but I’m fairness, weight not balanced properly will mess up you’re trim whether you’re trying to actively trim or not.Body positioning, not trinket adjusting.
You dive the gear, it doesn’t dive you.
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You’re right but I’m fairness, weight not balanced properly will mess up you’re trim whether you’re trying to actively trim or not.Body positioning, not trinket adjusting.
You dive the gear, it doesn’t dive you.
Ya, but people are forever trying to move 1lb here and 1lb there.You’re right but I’m fairness, weight not balanced properly will mess up you’re trim whether you’re trying to actively trim or not.
Yes the tank is buoyant eventually but the valve and first stage regulator are negative to it helps to move them up but a 2 lb ankle weight around the neck of the tank does the trick for me.This.
But the issue is the new diver who is 8 lb. out of trim, yet hears from the DIR diver to hold themselves right and dive the gear. Not let the gear dive them. As their first shot at getting in trim. The chance of them succeeding is low.Ya, but people are forever trying to move 1lb here and 1lb there.
If its perfect at 3000psi, its not going to be perfect at 500psi. And vice versa.
Its never going to be perfect.
Which is why I always come back to "dive the gear". Your body posture matters a lot more than trying to nerd out over a 1lb weight.
Cool, I completely agree.Ya, but people are forever trying to move 1lb here and 1lb there.
If its perfect at 3000psi, its not going to be perfect at 500psi. And vice versa.
Its never going to be perfect.
Which is why I always come back to "dive the gear". Your body posture matters a lot more than trying to nerd out over a 1lb weight.
Could be, but that’s not what this thread is about. Go re read the first post. Then go read all the replies.But the issue is the new diver who is 8 lb. out of trim, yet hears from the DIR diver to hold themselves right and dive the gear. Not let the gear dive them. As their first shot at getting in trim. The chance of them succeeding is low.
Even if they succeed, they spend their dive fighting those 8 pounds. Which is no fun. So they say scr*w this trim sh*t and quit or kick up the bottom.
But the issue is the new diver who is 8 lb. out of trim, yet hears from the DIR diver to hold themselves right and dive the gear. Not let the gear dive them...
In my experience I’ve found that the guys who are nerding out over one pound here and one pound there generally talk the talk on the boat but don’t walk the walk when underwater. They’re talking about it because they like to overthink not because they want to be better divers.
Could be, but that’s not what this thread is about. Go re read the first post. Then go read all the replies.
In this case, the OP made it clear that his weighting was correct, and that he was fighting a 1 lb differential between head to feet which took about a minute for him to rotate out of balance. That is something that can easily be corrected through body position, but moving weights slightly is to me, the first solution also.
In general threads about trim and buoyancy,, for sure, there is a strong emphasis on correct weighting first. Certainly by this DIR diver.