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| Originally Posted by Dave Crampton Believe me it gets better/easier. I was taught to put no air in the BCD and all in the suit., You only have one bouyancy device to manage then. You have probably got more weight than you will eventually need but its just a case of taking a kg off at a time until you feel your comfortable. I used to dive with 8kg with a single 12 and 6 with a pony. I was overweighted looking back, but not overly and confident that if I ran low on air I would not have an uncontrolled assent.
There are ways you can do a weight check. One is to drain your cylinder to ~50bar, (easy as your probably quite new to diving - though I appologies if your not). Then get in the water where you can just stand up, with your head out of the water. Now remove air from your suit, by moving your arm with the dump to allow the air to escape, check its all out as this is sometimes a problem in divers new to dry suits. (Also check that nothing is obstructing your suit dump, like the under suit. Then adjust your weight so that you can just sink by exhaling, and just remain bouyant at the surface by inhaling.
Get someone who has more dives and experience in this, like your instructor, to help you with this and passing you weight until your weighting is just right.
Dave C |
Hhmm I went in with 12kg for a 10l tank, membrane suit with no undersuit.
Yep! Only second dive and I only managed 45min to 70bar on a 15l on my first.
Cheers for the advice on the weight check. Looking at my BSAC training book it seems a bit odd that this is only supposed to be done on your final open water dive!