Dry suit squeeze

[lavachickie]

My dry suit valve is on my left shoulder and is always wide open

What kind of suit are you diving? If I do this with the White's Fusion, I have to keep adding air to the suit to maintain buoyancy because it comes right out. I use the suit for buoyancy only, I only use the BC to establish at the surface before and after the dive.

 

[TSandM]

lavachickie, if you are having to keep the valve closed or add air constantly, one of two things is almost certainly true: Either you are diving out of trim, and the valve is the highest point (diving head up/feet low) or you are overweighted.

I can ALMOST use my suit for buoyancy compensation when diving double tanks, where I'm starting the dive more than ten pounds negative. I do have to put a small amount of air in my wing, but not much. But I maintain a horizontal position, so the valve is not the high point.

If you have to put enough gas in the suit to compensate for ten or more pounds at the beginning of the dive with a single tank, you are overweighted.