Hi,
I recently finished GUE Fundamentals. One of the less intuitive lessons we learned was about weights, and specifically how we have too much of those.
The result of few weights seems to be a bigger impact of breathing on buoyancy.
At the end I got the hang of it, and I see some advantages, but I also see some disadvantages. When I did my OW cert dives I felt completely stable. It wouldn't matter if I took very deep and slow breaths, I wouldn't move a centimeter in the water column at all. With the DIR setup when I take a deep breath followed by a slow and complete empty lung I go up and down extremely.
Why would this be an advantage or am I doing something wrong?
Imagine: You are in a cave, something happens, you take a big breath, shoot to the top of the cave etc. Seems like an unnecessary potential problem which could be easily fixed with more weights + more air in the BC, which would diminish the effect of the lung on buoyancy.
I recently finished GUE Fundamentals. One of the less intuitive lessons we learned was about weights, and specifically how we have too much of those.
The result of few weights seems to be a bigger impact of breathing on buoyancy.
At the end I got the hang of it, and I see some advantages, but I also see some disadvantages. When I did my OW cert dives I felt completely stable. It wouldn't matter if I took very deep and slow breaths, I wouldn't move a centimeter in the water column at all. With the DIR setup when I take a deep breath followed by a slow and complete empty lung I go up and down extremely.
Why would this be an advantage or am I doing something wrong?
Imagine: You are in a cave, something happens, you take a big breath, shoot to the top of the cave etc. Seems like an unnecessary potential problem which could be easily fixed with more weights + more air in the BC, which would diminish the effect of the lung on buoyancy.