Well after recovering from mountain bike injuries and much improvement from a herniated disc, I finally got to do a real dive in my new Seaskin suit. My computer said my SI was over 280 days
and this was my first drysuit dive. For safety, my experienced buddy kept me in 30’ of water (freshwater shore dive). I made lot’s of mistakes (burped my neck seal in the water and got wet, didn’t seal my catheter well enough and pee’d my suit, kept letting my feet get floaty, buoyancy all over the place). However, after thrashing around a lot, my buddy got me down to bottom where I calmed myself and gradually got into trim. I was able to do the last half of the dive reasonably well with the shoulder vent open as I added and released air to maintain buoyancy. So despite the mistakes, there were nice little victories as well.
![Grimacing face :grimacing: 😬](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png)