Well, she's gone and done it; after a dive just over a week ago, where my Cressi Freeflow 2000's lived up to their name, quite a fair way down for Stoney Cove, she'd bottled out of diving at the YD gig, and bought a twinset.
Last night was the first trial in the pool and managed to do a couple of shut down drills, hovering mid water above the filter grate (that was full of icky plasters and hair) for 'encouragement'. So am feeling quite proud of myself. Plus trimmed flat, as thought I might be head down for some reason. No weights and felt VERY heavy.
It's surprising how many adjustments I have to make still, moving the bands down so the bottles sit higher up my back for one. I will be trying these at Stoney this Saturday, but they are out of O2 clean, so will be diving on AIR (Birmingham, August 2007 air at that!)!!! Very unlike me, so will have to be ultra-conservative on that score.
I have absolutely no clue what my weighting will be like, but say I dive with 12Kg on a single 10 and pony (still feel heavy on this!), can anyone give me an idea of what I could start with for a weight check, for twin 10's?
Also have already identified a design flaw in my harness, saying harness, it's more like a bcd strap. It restricted shoulder movement, so will have to see if I can adjust it narrower.
So, would like to say thanks to a few members of my club that frequent on here (Steve, Paul and Monty from Heanor - the BEST club in my opinion!), for advice and practical help, namely Steve changed my cylinder knobs to the tactile ones that I were given. And there's no safer place to try them, than in a pool with 2 off-duty ambulance men present!
I may even follow the club's tradition of inverted twins, but will try my best to break that mould and keep them 'this way up' for a while!
And the best news is - I can breathe all I want now!!!
So safe diving for 2008,
ATB,
Lou