MaxTorque
Contributor
I was in the training pool yesterday, thanks to C19 it's one of the first times i've been back in the pool for a while, and i launched a dSMB from neutral bouyancy at only around 2.5m depth, and frankly, it was messy and fell really hard maintaining my buoyancy! Certainly it would be "no points" from a style perspective.......
I didn't shoot to the surface or bounce off the bottom or anything, but it certainly was NOT a perfect hover style launch..........
Thing is, i've done this a fair few times in open water and not really felt it was too much of a problem,so either my skills are very rusty (definately possible) or it's much harder in really shallow water (worst case of change in volume/expansion with depth).
I was also in my 3mm wetsuit not my drysuit and my trim felt off all dive tbh (as a UK diver, wetsuit is pool or holiday use only ;-)
I have long thin, legs, with little body fat and i felt quite feet heavy whereas in my drysuit i can definately be really pretty horizontal and feet up without too much problem.
Finally i have also changed the way my weights are attached to my rig in order to try to simplify and reduce the bulk of my scuba unit (moved away from integrated dumpable weight system), so that's anther small change
I guess its probably a combo of everything i've just mentioned, but wow, talk about feeling like a learner again!
Anyone got a any top tips for making it easier to do whilst holding trim and depth?
I didn't shoot to the surface or bounce off the bottom or anything, but it certainly was NOT a perfect hover style launch..........
Thing is, i've done this a fair few times in open water and not really felt it was too much of a problem,so either my skills are very rusty (definately possible) or it's much harder in really shallow water (worst case of change in volume/expansion with depth).
I was also in my 3mm wetsuit not my drysuit and my trim felt off all dive tbh (as a UK diver, wetsuit is pool or holiday use only ;-)
I have long thin, legs, with little body fat and i felt quite feet heavy whereas in my drysuit i can definately be really pretty horizontal and feet up without too much problem.
Finally i have also changed the way my weights are attached to my rig in order to try to simplify and reduce the bulk of my scuba unit (moved away from integrated dumpable weight system), so that's anther small change
I guess its probably a combo of everything i've just mentioned, but wow, talk about feeling like a learner again!
Anyone got a any top tips for making it easier to do whilst holding trim and depth?