| Re: Air versus Argon
I use it in the winter. You don't feel significantly warmer but you get out of the same dive less uncomfortable and a lot less exhausted.
Flushing is a waste of time just argon-in argon-out. It never penetrates. The trick is to get the suit to squeeze up on the surface, not at depth, so you get as much air out of the undersuit as possible. Then the percentage mix is much better. Also I don't notice much difference shallow dives, again probably because the percentage is low, but having been deep the fraction stays high as you ascend and it pays on the stops.
I run a separate suit inflation system so it is redundant buoyancy with the wing on the DIL so in summer I just put air in the bottle. |