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Old 23-09-03, 04:13 PM
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<font color='#0000FF'>Hi

Interesting Dom. I'd always assumed that inspiration divers needed more weight, not less and therefore at depth they will need more buoyancy compensation not less and so the BC vs Drysuit debate becomes even more pertinent.

Reason being is that your gear with empty or near empty cylinders when properly weighted is neutrally buoyant at the surface, you then descend by emptying your lungs. As an inspiration diver cannot empty his lungs in this manner he therefore needs more weight, no matter what cylinders he has.

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