Drysuit skills for confined water

[chris kippax]

Hi all
My wife and I are going to do our first drysuit pool session next week (self teaching no course booked as of yet). I am getting a list of skills down on my wet notes and would like some input from the good folks on Scubaboard. This is what I have so far!
Correct weighting & trim out. (Got two tanks at 500 psi ready)
Add/dump air whilst neutral with valve in Auto.
Add/dump air whilst neutral with valve in Manual.
Inverted feet recovery.
Inlet valve freeflow/disconnet hose.
Propulsion techniques (to feel the effect of added drag vs wetsuit)
Test the pee valves.
Air share whilst neutral.
Mask remove & replace whilst neutral.

Thanks for your input!

 

[Diver0001]

looks good.

R..

 

[rongoodman]

You're going to test the pee valves in the pool?

 

[Searcaigh]

You're going to test the pee valves in the pool?

 

[chris kippax]

Hopefully they dont have the purple dye installed

 

[neevo]

Hopefully they dont have the purple dye installed

Whoever came up with that urban myth is a genius. I'd love to think it was a public pool maintenance guy.

Every kid in the world probably has the purple dye story in their head.

 

[EFX]

It's not an urban myth. It's use may be outdated and therefore the chemical is not used any more but I experienced the embarrassing black cloud myself much to my dismay. This was in the early 70's at my university pool. The head coach of swimming was a real pool nazi and had the chemical added. I have never seen it in any other pool since then.

 

[Bubblesong]

I just finished the SSI on line course, and I am reading the PADI manual as well. There is a bit more offered in these sources, but I don't think I could list all of it here. We take our classes this coming week at our SSI LDS.
These two training agencies say some different things about DRYSUIT diving, and until I actually go to my own pool class I don't know which is going to work better for me. Possibly, whatever type of DRYSUIT makes a difference to which training advice will work best.

 

[neevo]

It's not an urban myth. It's use may be outdated and therefore the chemical is not used any more but I experienced the embarrassing black cloud myself much to my dismay. This was in the early 70's at my university pool. The head coach of swimming was a real pool nazi and had the chemical added. I have never seen it in any other pool since then.

You sir, have just blown my mind!