Air 'conservation'

[Humuhumunukunukuapua'a]

Dive more. Anyone who gives you other advice is trying to sell you something

Just kidding.

But seriously. Dive more. It will "click". All newbies hoover their air. I did. Everyone I have ever met did. And then it clicks. After you...

...dive more

 

[Xanthro]

More dives and learn to not use your hands. Seriously, people who wave their hands around to maintain trim or turn or backup use way more air. Practice keeping your hands folded under you and learn to backup and turn using only your fins. Then learn to keep your movements calm. Your breathing will naturally improve.

 

[Cacia]

yoga? meditate? yea, like that. try and exhale a baby bit more than you do naturally. Since you are a scientist, read or review pulmony anatomy and the concept of "dead space".

 

[Miss Mollusc]

Thanks for clarifying the difference in the tank types.

 

[TheRedHead]

This topic seems to come up more than any other. Just strap on a 120 cf butt-banger and dive. I think both buoyancy and air consumption "problems" could be solved with the application of a big steel tank.

 

[Miss Mollusc]

This topic seems to come up more than any other. Just strap on a 120 cf butt-banger and dive. I think both buoyancy and air consumption "problems" could be solved with the application of a big steel tank.

It does? Sorry - a big forum to trawl through.

Thanks all for all your pointers, will take them on board.

 

[*Floater*]

or better yet, go straight to doubles while you work on your breathing technique.

 

[TheRedHead]

It does? Sorry - a big forum to trawl through.

Thanks all for all your pointers, will take them on board.

Sorry, didn't mean to sound grouchy, and yes, it comes up a lot. A good SAC comes with time and practice and if you are using more air right now, then bring more. There is nothing about the AL 80 that I like in recreational diving. I think the current rental fleet of AL80s should be destroyed and replaced with the beautiful E7-100. Then most of the newbies would run out of time before air and they wouldn't cork so much on their safety stops.

It's just an aluminum abomination.

 

[Cacia]

don't mind people around here! you'll come to love Redhat"s humor once you've perused hundreds of the garden variety "white bread posts". It is part of the affectionate hazing reserved for fresh divers.

me, I like the whole mindfulness of breathing. Just listening to the sound takes me to another place!

 

[Charlie99]

I think the current rental fleet of AL80s should be destroyed and replaced with the beautiful E7-100. Then most of the newbies would run out of time before air and they wouldn't cork so much on their safety stops.

Huh??? The E7-100 changes buoyancy more than an AL80, so why should the AL80 be causing people to "cork" on their safety stop?