Quote: (Originally Posted by
ianfirmin)
Hi All, I'm interested in what other people do about drysuit inflation. Using an air dil I inflate my wing from the dil and use the bailout for suit inflation.
I use the onboard DIL to drive the wing, but do buoyancy on my suit
I drive the suit from my bailout (typically a 5L sideslung)
Quote: (Originally Posted by
ianfirmin)
However, since I am a very new user and my buoyancy is not the best I'm using quite a lot of gas from the bailout for buoyancy control with the suit. I use virtually no gas from the dil except when I inflate the wing on the surface.
Hmmmm - are you correcty weighted?
I find that incorrect (ie. heavy) weighting on the Rebreather causes way more problems than on OC
- get the weighting right and its a joy
- even marginally overweight and I use LOTS of gas trying to control buoyancy
- my ideal weighting is such that I have to "swim" the first few metres down (full O2, DIL, 50B in the stage/bailout), its then absolutely spot on
- too light and I can't get down anyway
- takes some getting used to but once you do
- do you have weight in the head of the unit? I know they're expensive, but 2 of the 3Kg shaped weights in the head of the unit (and therefore 6Kg off your weightbelt) makes a HUGE difference to the way the unit feels in the water
- do you dive MLV or tend to fill the counterlungs? Again, makes a difference...
Hope this helps
Nick