When we had to do the tread for my OW, I just sat in the water and looked at the guy with the watch. Doing the breath-hold swim for GUE was a terrible ordeal, because I could NOT stay underwater!
Sinker or Floater?
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KzooJason
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I'm definitely a sinker... the PADI DM 15 minute tread (last two minutes with hands out of the water) is a pain. Watching others around me float easily inspires great envy... at least until I watch the same people lug a ton of weight down to the dive site. 
lamont
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divingjd:
mask remove and replace probably didn't stress you out too much? me either.
i don't know why i'm a sinker either. my bodyfat %age is 25% so its not like i'm an olympic athlete. i'm actually wondering if i ever hit my target weight of 175# and 15% bodyfat if i'd sink in a pool with even a full breath....
cummings66
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I'd say I'm a sinker, but barely. With a full breath I'm at eye level, or sometimes the eyes are slightly below the water.
So very close to neutral I can taste it.
My legs are very negative, never needed ankle weights on a drysuit, sometimes I even get an air bubble back there on purpose.
So very close to neutral I can taste it.
My legs are very negative, never needed ankle weights on a drysuit, sometimes I even get an air bubble back there on purpose.
123Scuba.com
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Sinker but not to the extreme (built in buoys too)
SparticleBrane
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I can sink and float, depending on how much air I have in my lungs at the time. Having that much control is awesome.
Having that much control is awesome. 
I'm a floater. Even with empty lungs and in a bathingsuit, I stay on the surface. Which I have always found odd because I am really small and skinny (not even 110lbs, and I'm 5'5"). Not much body fat on me. But I don't have much muscle, either. At any rate, it takes quite a bit of weight to get me down, and to keep me down.
At any rate, it takes quite a bit of weight to get me down, and to keep me down.
I'm a floter with lots on "natural buoyancy".
lamont:
No, mask drills never stressed me either. Buoyancy control was the only thing, maybe because I sink. And I've got enough floaty tissue (read bodyfat) that you wouldn't think I would be that negatively buoyant.
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