God I love this place!!
I like to consider it off-gassing! Seems to get me AFTER the dive, but very rarely during.
I like to consider it off-gassing! Seems to get me AFTER the dive, but very rarely during.
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Cool! Thanks everyone! Glad I could offer some laughs. I think I got my questions answered. I probably got more bouyant because the gas inside my body was at a higher pressure and when it left my orifice it expanded thus causing me to get bouyant. I agree that farts are mostly negligible but life changing farts are way different. Just trust me on it. As for removal, I think I will try loosening the weight belt and have the bubbles work its way up. I also learned something reading through the previous posts. NEVER gamble on a fart. Unless if it is a rental wetsuit!
No, that is not correct, unless you swallowed a spare air or something like that. The gas inside you body is essentially at ambient pressure. When it exceeds ambient pressure, and just by a very small bit, it will travel towards the lower pressure and eventually escape. When it does, you will become slightly less buoyant.
Why you became more buoyant (or think you did) is not at all clear. Perhaps your were a bit on the light side and subconsciously compensating by swimming down. After the relief you may have become more comfortable and relaxed and stopped compensating. Or maybe you just enjoyed it that much!!!
- Why did I get bouyant after farting? I'm assuming I had that gas in me before I jumped into the water properly weighted. I was also neutrally bouyant at the bottom.
- If this were to happen again, what is the best way to overcome it?
First - just so all my buddies are aware of this in advance.... There is no way I am doing this kind of bubble check!
If "gas" (talking about gas the state of matter not "the gas) in your body is always at ambient pressure than why do we have to 'equalize' our air spaces (like ears and mask, etc)?
just a theory, and I have no real working knowledge of how the body really works
- This being a life changing flatulence, is it possible that whatever was causing "the gas" worked much like a scuba compressor. - compressing "the gas" into a storage vessel (like a cascade tank or scuba tank) until at some point his burst disc blew causing all the compressed gas to not only to vent but expand as well. Not really related to the pressure cause by being a depth but the pressure built up in whatever cavity in our body holds the gas being over pressurized.
If the panel can extend all the way past the crotch, it would be nice to not have to half strip the wetsuit to pee.