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| Originally Posted by stuartr I guess it does beg the question what if it had happened solo at 45m...although personally I haven't been solo much past 25m.
With a dry suit; bouyancy could be improved by adding more air to it, though it still won't get you off the bottom without ditching weights. A fine idea until you start accelerating on the way up like a Polaris missile. Though at least you have the option to dump some air unlike a wetsuit.
I'm not familiar with twin bag wing bc's I assume they have independent bags and surely not independent feeds? If not the hole was in my bc inflator hose at the top where it bends and would still dump all the air, particularly if sitting upright on the bottom trying to work out the problem.
I guess if the bc is completely stuffed and for whatever reason it cannot be inflated I guess you have inflate your DSMB/ hopefully DSMB's on a short leash and if necessary remove your weights one by one until you can push off the bottom and swim downwards once you loose control on the ascent, breath out and hope for the best. Quite a lot of task loading.
I for one will now test it throughly every dive.
Stuartr |
Surely, if you are correctly weighted, then you can just swim up irrespective of depth ?
I dived with a guy in Fiji whose corrugated hose came away completely from his, (rented), BC. He just shrugged and carried on with his dive.
I had the hose come off my wing once, but fortunately it was on a shallow bimble and i used my D/S for bouyancy.