dfx
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Alright, this is a bit of a theoretical question, so bear with me...
I'm nicely in trim in shallow water, let's say 10-15 ft, and I'm not overweighted. Wearing my usual 5 mm full suit and booties.
Now as I go deeper, my suit compresses and loses buoyancy. It does so evenly across the entire fabric, head (well, shoulders) to toes. I put air in my BCD to compensate to become neutral again.
So now I've lost buoyancy across my entire body, including my legs and feet, but have added buoyancy only around my chest/torso. This makes me leg-heavy and puts me out of trim.
What would be the proper way to correct this? Can it be fixed at all? The only way I can think of is to adjust my posture trying to compensate for this shift in buoyancy, but that seems awkward. Any other ideas, what am I missing? And, judging from the lack of other posts discussing this, why do I seem to be only one having this problem? Logically it seems this should be happening to everybody?
I'm nicely in trim in shallow water, let's say 10-15 ft, and I'm not overweighted. Wearing my usual 5 mm full suit and booties.
Now as I go deeper, my suit compresses and loses buoyancy. It does so evenly across the entire fabric, head (well, shoulders) to toes. I put air in my BCD to compensate to become neutral again.
So now I've lost buoyancy across my entire body, including my legs and feet, but have added buoyancy only around my chest/torso. This makes me leg-heavy and puts me out of trim.
What would be the proper way to correct this? Can it be fixed at all? The only way I can think of is to adjust my posture trying to compensate for this shift in buoyancy, but that seems awkward. Any other ideas, what am I missing? And, judging from the lack of other posts discussing this, why do I seem to be only one having this problem? Logically it seems this should be happening to everybody?