While at the YMCA pool yesterday, I decided to try an experiment. At the deep end, with just mask and dive socks and my fins (and compression shorts), I did a buoyancy check.
With full lungs, I floated with my mask half way submerged. When I exhaled, I sank like a rock.
I thought it might be that my fins were negative, so I took them off. Same thing exactly.
Am I negative, positive or neutral? Is that common for divers?
Then I took a fin down to the bottom and held it 3 feet up. It basically stayed suspended, maybe just fractionally negative, just sinking ever so slightly. Are most fins neutral?
I think I might have been narc'd in the pool.
With full lungs, I floated with my mask half way submerged. When I exhaled, I sank like a rock.
I thought it might be that my fins were negative, so I took them off. Same thing exactly.
Am I negative, positive or neutral? Is that common for divers?
Then I took a fin down to the bottom and held it 3 feet up. It basically stayed suspended, maybe just fractionally negative, just sinking ever so slightly. Are most fins neutral?
I think I might have been narc'd in the pool.