Too weighted and too buoyant

[adventur]

Advanced, nearly 200 dives. In Malaysia, using lined dive skins. Never had a problem like this. Typically relaxed diver, good air consumption rate.

I had to have extra weight to get down, first dive and then more on the next. However, on none of my dives was I able to remain at the safety stop for 3 minutes. FYI, it wasn't a required deco stop.

 

[scubadada]

@adventur

If you can't hold your safety stop with your tank down to reserve volume and with no air in your BC, you're underweighted.

In general, you start your dive somewhat overweighted, by at least the weight of the gas you are going to consume during your dive. That's a little over 5 lbs for an AL80.

 

[svs]

How much more weight? Did you use the same BC? Did you gain some weight recently?

 

[rick00001967]

It is what is. So unless you have an equip issue like air seeping into the bcd, or air getting trapped in there, it looks like you are underweighted since you blew through the safety stop.

 

[DivingLane]

Sounds like you were using different exposure suit than usual? What else was different from your previous dives?

 

[Scuba-guy]

A new wetsuit is more buoyant, than a used one.

 

[Micko1974]

Are you using rental equipment or your own? As somone said previously, if you cannot be neturally buoyant at 5M at the end of the dive, then it's likely you are underweighted.