When I took my Drysuit class under SSI, the pool session was done in a special deep pool used by the army. It was a 10 mts (33 feet) deep pool. With this pool you can realy test a drysuit. In a normal pool with only 10 feet, it's very difficult to do any drill owing to the limited depth.
Drysuit and pool?
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If you must dive your suit in a pool, rinse the suit well. Also, don't forget to rinse off any chlorine that may have gotten inside the suit. You can turn the suit inside out for this if you need to.
For learning to dive it I recommend a combination of formal instruction, mentoring from experienced divers, and of course direct experience in a benign environment.
There's some controversy over how to manage buoyancy when diving a single tank (my instructor talked about both methods and asked us to figure out what worked best for us). I think you'll get best results if you use your wing or BC for buoyancy and the drysuit inflator just for maintaining loft in the undergarment (warmth) and managing squeeze. I just try to keep the boys happy, if you know what I mean. Not sure how the fairer sex manages it without these built in sensors.
After 4 or 5 dives I regretted buying a drysuit but after about 200 dry dives I think its one of the best purchases I ever made. I've guess I've internalized it so much that it almost seems like the suit dives itself. But every now and then something happens to remind me and I am glad I know what to do. Most recently, I forgot to hook up my suit inflator hose one day last month when I was in a hurry to get off the boat. It was a shallowish site so out of complacency I was too lax with my predive checks. I was quickly reminded that I was diving a drysuit.
For learning to dive it I recommend a combination of formal instruction, mentoring from experienced divers, and of course direct experience in a benign environment.
There's some controversy over how to manage buoyancy when diving a single tank (my instructor talked about both methods and asked us to figure out what worked best for us). I think you'll get best results if you use your wing or BC for buoyancy and the drysuit inflator just for maintaining loft in the undergarment (warmth) and managing squeeze. I just try to keep the boys happy, if you know what I mean. Not sure how the fairer sex manages it without these built in sensors.
After 4 or 5 dives I regretted buying a drysuit but after about 200 dry dives I think its one of the best purchases I ever made. I've guess I've internalized it so much that it almost seems like the suit dives itself. But every now and then something happens to remind me and I am glad I know what to do. Most recently, I forgot to hook up my suit inflator hose one day last month when I was in a hurry to get off the boat. It was a shallowish site so out of complacency I was too lax with my predive checks. I was quickly reminded that I was diving a drysuit.
Chris12day
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I am very curious to why the great fear of chlorine (sodium hypochlorite (NaClO)). I understand if you are an instructor, that the repeated high concentrations in the pool will affect the life of dive equipment. But what do you think is in the water you are rinsing and soaking your equipment in after the dive? Yep, chlorine (sodium hypochlorite (NaClO)). Additionally, if you are soaking your equipment in deionized water...It is far more corrosive than tap water.
We rinse our gear because salt (sodium chloride) is very corrisive to most metals.
Do not be afraid of big bad chemicals, just understand them.
We rinse our gear because salt (sodium chloride) is very corrisive to most metals.
Do not be afraid of big bad chemicals, just understand them.
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Do you dive with your regulator, dive knife and BCD in the sea? Is your equipment exposed to the sun on the dive boat on the way to the dive site and back? All this will damage your gear on the long run as well. The only thing you can do to enjoy it a little longer is to clean it properly after every dive. It does not matter if it is the pool, a lake or the sea. Clorine does not do more damage to your equipment than salt or sun.
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