hudson
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I cannot dive my 108s wet. I don't have enough lift in my 50lb wing, and my wetsuit is an 8/6 and only used for one summer season.
Rob, I assume the problem was at depth (recall what depth before the wing was insufficient?) - any problem floating comfortably on the surface? No stages involved, right? Nomad wing?
I think dive rite rates their wings by theoretical volume in salt water, where as companies like Halcyon and DSS tend to rate them by real world capacity. Maybe I'm wrong, but my nomad wing doesn't have anywhere near the volume that my 55lb Halcyon does, not much more than my 30lb oxycheq actually...
I don't know about Halcyon, but yeah, Tobin said DSS rates wings assembled, Oxycheq has stated their free lift is more than rated (32lbs for a Mach V 30lbs) so the 30lbs should be accurate with the wing on an Oxycheq backplate with a single tank. Somebody did test it on a DSS backplate and got only 27lbs. There is also a mention of a 40lbs rated wing delivering only 32lbs.
Hmm.. I think I'm gonna test the Nomad now. Update: Got about 40lbs with the bungees relaxed, but I didn't manage to get all the air out (it was sloshing around a little), so it's probably a bit more. I have a 50lbs wing.
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