Monkey dive in a drysuit.
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Monkey: Meaning single sidemount? Typical BC inflator hose length suggests left-slung cylinder. Use a normal back-mount reg, and stow the Octo as normal for backmount.
Mionkey: meaning no BC, and tank tethered to your weight belt? What is your contingency plan for a suit flood?
Mionkey: meaning no BC, and tank tethered to your weight belt? What is your contingency plan for a suit flood?
Eric Sedletzky
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God, I love the whole concept of monkey diving!
It’s a twist on vintage no BC diving. So unconventional, risky, daring, free, I love it!
We do Something similar here but it’s single backmount in wetsuits, proper weighting meaning freedive weighting (light), one single reg and maybe an SPG.
The freedom is liberating!
It’s a twist on vintage no BC diving. So unconventional, risky, daring, free, I love it!
We do Something similar here but it’s single backmount in wetsuits, proper weighting meaning freedive weighting (light), one single reg and maybe an SPG.
The freedom is liberating!
clownfishsydney
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WTF is a monkey dive? Been diving over 35 years and first I have heard of this term.
Put your back-mount reg on an AL80. Loop a rope tether with a bolt snap around the valve. Put a d-ring (or a heavy duty O-Ring) on your weight belt. Wear a swim suit, mask, fins, and a weight belt (6 lbs is optimal for me, YMMV). Enter the water carrying the tank, clip the boltsnap to the ring, and have at it. Your BC is your lungs. Most people have 3 liters of max tidal volume in their lungs, so breathe off the top of your lungs at the start of the dive, by the end you'll be breathing off the bottom. The amount of air carried is limited by lung capacity.
OTF
Coney Island Whitefish Biologist
pairs well with freedive fins or a scooter for minimum drag maximum speed
Robert H. Diver
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I mean single sidemount.
So drysuit and wing. Although I suppose drysuit only wouldn't be the end of the world since I'm using a minimum of weight.
In the end I grabbed my BP/W but I'll definitely give this a try during wetsuit season.
So drysuit and wing. Although I suppose drysuit only wouldn't be the end of the world since I'm using a minimum of weight.
In the end I grabbed my BP/W but I'll definitely give this a try during wetsuit season.
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