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Flooded suit and stuck inflator... what's hard? Bubble in your feet, tuck them and roll. M2M suit significantly reduces bubble management issues. A class, while a good idea for newer divers and those without drysuit buddies, isn't a necessity. Having someone to go over things with you and give you a hand on your first few dives is often more than enough. This topic, along with many other cert cards, is subjective to the individuals desire.
Nobody is suggesting that either. I suggested here and in a DM that the first dives be done at a training site with a controlled area. A hard bottom of 15' is my preferred method. My 2nd dive however was solo and to 60' with poorly fitting boots that hurt my feet and I was much too light because I thought I would be fine. I was not, it sucked and made me hate diving. I pushed through the suck to get more time in the suit since I was there and this was my last dive for the day.
Have you looked at the Optimal buoyancy calculator spreadsheet posted on this site created by a site member. It’s a very detailed and useful tool to give you a ballpark starting weight recommendation for exposure suit, tank and BCD scenarios.So I'm diving (ha ha!) into the dry suit world and have a first question; probably the first of many. So as I ponder weighting requirements, I'll be deleting the equivalent flotation of a 7mm wetsuit and adding a trilam dry suit and undergarments (base layer and Thinsulate 150 uni-suit). My concern is being able to maintain depth at the end of a dive at the safety stop. If I start with a single full HP100, do I go through the same process as a wet suit or do I need to account for buoyancy of a partially-filled dry suit at 5m (1.5 atm). Or is there negligible squeeze at the safety stop and the dry suit will have most of the air purged?
Will I be roughly the same buoyancy between the two or will I expect to be more buoyant with the dry option?
Maybe I should ask another way. SHOULD I ASK FOR A WEIGHT BELT edit: (OR A SS BP) FOR CHRISTMAS?
The hard part is garments V the weight you have on. I found with a drysuit I was warmer and so used less weight then in my 7mill. I also found when I do need more weight using the weight pockets around the tank work far better for me then a weight belt or harness. My dive yesterday down to 84 feet in 38* water I used what I call my "light" thermals IE about as thick as a T-shirt. And also the heated vest. for weight I used 16 pounds. "should be noted I use a AL40 on my side." And I can hold a safety stop at 10FT with 250PSI in each tank. Now If I step it up to my thick undergarments I need around 22 pounds. So I guess what I am getting at is figure out how much weight you will need first then decided how you want to carry it in a dive.So I'm diving (ha ha!) into the dry suit world and have a first question; probably the first of many. So as I ponder weighting requirements, I'll be deleting the equivalent flotation of a 7mm wetsuit and adding a trilam dry suit and undergarments (base layer and Thinsulate 150 uni-suit). My concern is being able to maintain depth at the end of a dive at the safety stop. If I start with a single full HP100, do I go through the same process as a wet suit or do I need to account for buoyancy of a partially-filled dry suit at 5m (1.5 atm). Or is there negligible squeeze at the safety stop and the dry suit will have most of the air purged?
Will I be roughly the same buoyancy between the two or will I expect to be more buoyant with the dry option?
Maybe I should ask another way. SHOULD I ASK FOR A WEIGHT BELT edit: (OR A SS BP) FOR CHRISTMAS?
