meagicano
Contributor
So, I am a new owner of a Whites Fusion and I got it right before leaving Ottawa. I had three opportunities to dive it. I also picked up a new bp/w (Halcyon eclipse, stainless steel, with weighted STA)
Dive 1 & 2: drysuit course at a local quarry. The shop had screwed everything up - so they didn't put the bullet skin on it like they were supposed to, they didn't have the STA on my Halcyon rig (I didn't realize until I got it out because they had carried it out to my car for me), etc. etc. SO. I did the dive in my sport skin, no STA and had 18 lbs on to sink from a really terrible weight check my instructor did (which was basically throwing weight at me until I stayed down).
Dive 3: in the river. Light current. I now have the Bullet skin and the STA (which is apparently 6 lbs) on the Halycon rig. So I put 6 & 6 in my integrated pockets, to total up 18 lbs and I was basically a muck diver.
The instructor had stressed that I should be only using the drysuit for buoyancy etc etc. and it definitely wasn't doable on Dive #3. I could barely get off the bottom, so I was incredibly overweighted. On dives 1 & 2 I had no problems using only the drysuit versus the wing. I read a lot and talk to more experienced divers a lot, so I wasn't completely sold on the fact that I should only use my suit but figured that since it had worked on Dives 1 & 2 I could just stick with it.
I know this sounds a bit convoluted... but is there any sort of difference between the Bullet and Sport skin in terms of buoyancy that an experienced Whites diver knows about?
Dive 1 & 2: drysuit course at a local quarry. The shop had screwed everything up - so they didn't put the bullet skin on it like they were supposed to, they didn't have the STA on my Halcyon rig (I didn't realize until I got it out because they had carried it out to my car for me), etc. etc. SO. I did the dive in my sport skin, no STA and had 18 lbs on to sink from a really terrible weight check my instructor did (which was basically throwing weight at me until I stayed down).
Dive 3: in the river. Light current. I now have the Bullet skin and the STA (which is apparently 6 lbs) on the Halycon rig. So I put 6 & 6 in my integrated pockets, to total up 18 lbs and I was basically a muck diver.
The instructor had stressed that I should be only using the drysuit for buoyancy etc etc. and it definitely wasn't doable on Dive #3. I could barely get off the bottom, so I was incredibly overweighted. On dives 1 & 2 I had no problems using only the drysuit versus the wing. I read a lot and talk to more experienced divers a lot, so I wasn't completely sold on the fact that I should only use my suit but figured that since it had worked on Dives 1 & 2 I could just stick with it.
I know this sounds a bit convoluted... but is there any sort of difference between the Bullet and Sport skin in terms of buoyancy that an experienced Whites diver knows about?
