Buoyancy and air consumption

[Uncle Pug]

How do you use this as a training aid? Is this just an extension of controlling depth by watching the floaties?

I look at floaties as well as little stuff on the bottom (or wall) and then hand the magnifier to my buddy.

 

[Uncle Pug]

Burping awap... burping

 

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Burping awap... burping

I've only dove wet (www). But I think I see another advantage now.

 

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and then hand the magnifier to my buddy.

It took me a couple minutes to realize where this one was going. Do you think it would work almost as well if I moved the magnifier from one hand to the other?

 

[asmith5]

speaking of spritzing and burping... earlier this week while diving after having eaten a hoagy bun full of cold cuts and slathered with mustard... I had to add a little gas to my wing to offset the belch through my regulator.

LOL! I hadn't thought about that, but I guess we do kind of have an internal BC as well as the one we wear. Maybe I should do a gas check and adjust my weights according to the type of food I ate the night before the dive.

 

[Uncle Pug]

That would be excellent pre-dive planning for precision buoyancy control.

Just remember that flatulence in a drysuit doesn't change your buoyancy... it just makes it harder to get people to unzip you a second time.