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I'd really advise that you don't just bolt on lead until you can sink - you'll probably end up overweighted, which just brings a host more problems.
When you first try to sink you've quite possibly still got loads of gas trapped in the suit, and that along with breathing (already covered I knw), unconscious leg movements etc. can make it harder for you to sink. It's probably best to do a shallow dive - only 4m or so, making sure that at the end you've only got about 50bar left in the cylinder. You should then be neutral with no gas in your BC/wing and only enough gas in your suit to take the squeeze off. Get your buddy to add/remove lead until you hit that point, though if you're already down there the chances are they will be removing some. Obviously you both need some sort of temporary way of carrying weight to do this!
Then you know that with a full cylinder at the start of a dive you will be a couple of K heavier and so will sink. Patience, relaxation and thinking heavy thoughts also help!  |