Incident—all well

[rongoodman]

Steel tank on my back, no air in my BCD. Felt heavy. Even on the surface, fully inflated, the back-inflate BCD requires a little bit of finning to stay up. In a 1.5 mm wetsuit I have a total of 2lbs (or no weight)…and my tank.

If you were neutral while swimming around at the beginning of the dive with no air in your BC, you would have been 5-6 pounds light at the end due to the weight of the gas used during the dive. If the tank "felt heavy", why didn't you have some air in the BC to compensate? None of this makes any sense, as many times as I've read it.

 

[SlugLife]

Why? When the valve is down by your arse, it is easy to reach.

Did you have taco bell for lunch ,or is that a first stage leak I'm seeing?

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

Did you have taco bell for lunch ,or is that a first stage leak I'm seeing?

Are we talking about uncontrolled ascent like an ICBM launched from a submarine?

 

[SlugLife]

Are we talking about uncontrolled ascent like an ICBM launched from a submarine?

Today in dive-science, we're going to examine the buoyancy characteristics of a taco-bell fueled human-launched torpedo, fired from 120ft deep. Our viewers wanted to know "when it reaches the surface, will it propel itself into the air like an ICBM or simply become a hazard for swimmers nearby?"

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

Today in dive-science, we're going to examine the buoyancy characteristics of a taco-bell fueled human-launched torpedo, fired from 120ft deep. Our viewers wanted to know "when it reaches the surface, will it propel itself into the air like an ICBM or simply become a hazard for swimmers nearby?"

Or will such divers escape the Earth's gravity and never be seen again?

 

[chillyinCanada]

Let's stay on topic please.