Dive Accident on Belize Aggressor

[vladimir]

We're all puzzled by that. How is it possible to be negatively buoyant with only exposure protection and a set of ankle weights?

One possibility: she wasn't negative, but was lifting her torso out of the water in attempts to board the dinghy, and subsequently sinking as her out-of-water torso propelled her down when she failed. Combine that with rough water and a bouncing boat and she might have felt negative even though she was neutral or positive.

 

[Jan Neufeld Adair]

vladimir: that may well be a possible explanation. I don't know enough to know why I went under. It just seemed that the ankle weights were the problem. Also, I had not made the folllowing correction. I had previously posted that I wore, as I usually do, a 3mm long john and a 3mm shortie. But, I have since remembered that on that dive I just wore the shortie over a skin.

 

[tadawson]

With the same weight, or did you adjust? If the same, then you were likely over weighted the entire dive.

- Tim

 

[Jan Neufeld Adair]

adjusted

 

[electrix]

I have a pair of ankle weights that I use for tank weights on an Al 80 as I remember they are 4 or 4 1/2 lbs each how much did Jan's weigh?