NCSU_Diver
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I'm a lucky resident of Topsail Island, NC. Off our shores are some of the best wreck dives available to recreational divers. Becoming a dive buff a year or so ago introduced me to these wrecks. Now at college further inland, I've been diving in a local quarry. I notice though during my past 4 dives there that I have trouble getting my body horrizontal. Being a surfer and skateboarder for most of my life, my legs tend to be nice and strong, of course my 6'5" body comes complete with very long legs. For some reason when I dive, my legs have a tendancy to sink causing me to swim slightly slanted. I know this is not helping my air consumption and sometimes it bothers me underwater knowing I have this problem. I've spent the past two dives trying to find the cause of this. I don't wear weights on my ankles and typically use a weight belt and weights inside my integrated weight system in my BC. Do you have any suggestions to help solve the problem?
Also as a side question. I have heard being neutrally bouyant is when your elevation underwater changes when you breathe in and out (i.e. placing your fins on the bottom and being able to do "push ups" with just breathing) I have no problem getting to this point, but when doing my safety stop at 15 ft. it seems that my breathing likes to take me anywhere between 13 and 17 ft. I've spent probably my last 6 dives practicing this skill at the end of each dive. Anybody else experience this? Is this common? If not any way to solve it?
Also as a side question. I have heard being neutrally bouyant is when your elevation underwater changes when you breathe in and out (i.e. placing your fins on the bottom and being able to do "push ups" with just breathing) I have no problem getting to this point, but when doing my safety stop at 15 ft. it seems that my breathing likes to take me anywhere between 13 and 17 ft. I've spent probably my last 6 dives practicing this skill at the end of each dive. Anybody else experience this? Is this common? If not any way to solve it?