I went one week ago to Catalina Scuba Luv and got dry suit certified. Everything was fine. The past two days have been bad.
Today I did a shore dive off of Topaz St. in Redondo with an very experianced dive buddy. I was Ok as we decended to about 40-50 ft. I had 26 lbs in BC and further weight by using a 130 PSI Tank giving me 34 lbs. I was at the bottom touching the sand so I inflated the dry suit to get a few feet above the sand. We went to 70 ft. OK then we hit this big sand bar and started ascending. I tried to deplete air in my suit to get rid of the air pocket and it went to my feet. I was upside down. My buddy grabbed me and took me deeper I was ascending out of control. I knocked off his face mask and finally pulled my neck to release air. Then I was OK. We started back and again as we got at 30 ft depth by suit did the same thing. I could not release air as I was trained by raising my left arm. I use a DUI dry suit. I surfaced without a safty stop. I was thinking maybe I had too much weight. Maybe I over compensated by putting too much air in the suit. I checked the suit when I got to shore and filled it up then raised my arm and it released. I kept the valve open turned counter clockwise the entire time. When I attemped to release air with my left arm above my body it didn't work. Not really sure what went wrong. It was way scarry and dangerous loosing control. Any thoughts?
Today I did a shore dive off of Topaz St. in Redondo with an very experianced dive buddy. I was Ok as we decended to about 40-50 ft. I had 26 lbs in BC and further weight by using a 130 PSI Tank giving me 34 lbs. I was at the bottom touching the sand so I inflated the dry suit to get a few feet above the sand. We went to 70 ft. OK then we hit this big sand bar and started ascending. I tried to deplete air in my suit to get rid of the air pocket and it went to my feet. I was upside down. My buddy grabbed me and took me deeper I was ascending out of control. I knocked off his face mask and finally pulled my neck to release air. Then I was OK. We started back and again as we got at 30 ft depth by suit did the same thing. I could not release air as I was trained by raising my left arm. I use a DUI dry suit. I surfaced without a safty stop. I was thinking maybe I had too much weight. Maybe I over compensated by putting too much air in the suit. I checked the suit when I got to shore and filled it up then raised my arm and it released. I kept the valve open turned counter clockwise the entire time. When I attemped to release air with my left arm above my body it didn't work. Not really sure what went wrong. It was way scarry and dangerous loosing control. Any thoughts?