mwhities
Contributor
CompuDude:Michael, did you have an empty tank for weighting purposes? Don't forget you'll ALWAYS be overweighted (purposely) at the beginning of a dive, where you have 6 pounds (or so) of gas in your tank that goes away as you breathe it down. An empty (or rather, nearly empty @ 500 psi) tank is what you should be neutral with. With next to no exposure protection and a full tank, you'll be 6 pounds negative, which is easily enough to sink you pretty quickly.
Yesterday I dove again and this time I was "fully loaded" 3mm covered literally every square inch of my body. Minus my face where the mask covered up most of that. See this.
I also had my SMB and spool (with a brass clip) hooked on my butt d-ring. I was running about 1200psi and I noticed that I had to put forth effort to try to stay down. Much like I was becoming positive. If I were to exhale fully, I'd drift down but, as soon as I took on a deep breath, I'd almost shot up to the surface. I'm thinking that I need to add some weight, plus add more (when fully suited) to get in salt water.
When the tank was full, I had no issues of staying down. Which that surprised me that once I hit 1200 or so, I started getting "floaty". Should it happen that soon? I think at empty, my tank is -2 and -7 when full. I guess that could happen...
So now I need to get some weight pouches. I think I'm still feet heavy and I can't move my tank up any further as it's already hitting the back of my head. So much that I feel I could move my head up/back further but, it doesn't allow me to. It was suggested once to put weight on my tank via the cam bands. I tried to find some on line but, I couldn't. (Late last night and tired. ) Do any of you have a site or number to someone I could call? I've seen a few sites before but, I never thought I'd need them so didn't book mark them.
After I get the weight pouches in, I'll need to head to salt water. I know if in the pool I could barely keep down, I'll definitely need to have weights then.
Thanks again all,
Michael