Wet Suit Compression : Overweighting

[The Kraken]

Maybe I just need to dive A LOT MORE with this particular set up.
Yep, that sounds like the ticket to me!!!
Crush the crap out of it.
I do imagine it will get better over time.
I normally dive a lycra skin and an old 1/4" farmer john that I've been using since the time of the Great Flood that has long since seen it's best flotation days (kept me warm while kayaking in winter and helped cushion the blows of the boulders when I had to bail out).

Was just wondering if any other members of the board had similar "challenges" and what, if anything, they did to remedy the situation.

Thanks, all . . . .

 

[Scuba_Vixen]

"You should sink easliy at the beginning" equates to even more weight resulting to an even more overweighted situation at the bottom if my basic high school physics course serves me right.

Your definition of "overweighted" is incorrect. Overweighted means more weight than needed to maintain neutral bouyancy with essentially empty tanks and no air in your wing at 10', (or alternatively) just below the surface. To say you're overweighted anytime you have to have more than a tiny amount of air in your wing is unrealistic, especially when diving wet.

It's just plain old physics, you have to add more air to your wing as you increase the amount of neoprene, all else remaining constant.

Practise and experience is the answer here. It's like when a new diver watches as experience divers hover motionless in midwater at the 15' safety stop, and wonders how the heck they can do that. Then after the next 100 dives or so, they are the ones being watched.

If you work at it, you can master it,

Darlene

 

[Scuba_Vixen]

My last instructor mentioned 'crushed neoprene' as the material for the wetsuit of choice. I've never actually found it - but the idea sounded good. As it's 'pre-crushed' it doesn't lose so much of it's bouyancy supposedly - or rather, it never had it to start with!! Does anyone know about it?

Crushed neoprene is used for dry and sometimes, semi-dry suits. When it's crushed, or compressed, it looses much of it's thermal capacity, so it's not practical for wetsuit use.

Hope that helped,

Darlene