trailblazer1229
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Ok, It may seem like a strange question, and I risk sounding like an idiot. But am I really this stupid???
My wife and I conducted a boat dive in salt water a couple of weeks ago. Buoyancy checks revealed her to need 12lbs of lead and I needed 15lbs. We had a great dive to about 40 feet and we were beautifully neutrally bouyant. We used the lead and weight belts from a LDS sponsoring the dive.
The next day we conducted a shore dive to about 14 feet. We had the exact same equipment as the day before. Some suits, ballast of gear, tanks, air, etc. The difference was that instead of using the LDS lead and weight belts, we used our pocket weight belts with weights I pulled from my weighted pull-up vest. They are a pound each and I think they are made out of iron with a glossy black paint. When I weighed them with my luggage scale, they were just over 15 lbs and 12lbs.
On the shore dive, my wife could not descend as she was too buoyant. She tried everything and the only way should could submerge is if I pulled her down with me and then she slowly floated back up.
So the only variables changing were the makeup of the weights and the column of water we were swimming in since it was a shore dive.
My question is: Does the composition or make up of the weight material (such as lead compared to iron) make a difference underwater if they weighted the same on the surface?
Or, is the underlying factor the column of saltwater (depth) under us?
Or, could it be she used an anchor line to lower her to a point on the boat dive where her wetsuit compressed enough?
What weighs more underwater? A pound of surface lead or a pound of surface feathers (or iron)?
My wife and I conducted a boat dive in salt water a couple of weeks ago. Buoyancy checks revealed her to need 12lbs of lead and I needed 15lbs. We had a great dive to about 40 feet and we were beautifully neutrally bouyant. We used the lead and weight belts from a LDS sponsoring the dive.
The next day we conducted a shore dive to about 14 feet. We had the exact same equipment as the day before. Some suits, ballast of gear, tanks, air, etc. The difference was that instead of using the LDS lead and weight belts, we used our pocket weight belts with weights I pulled from my weighted pull-up vest. They are a pound each and I think they are made out of iron with a glossy black paint. When I weighed them with my luggage scale, they were just over 15 lbs and 12lbs.
On the shore dive, my wife could not descend as she was too buoyant. She tried everything and the only way should could submerge is if I pulled her down with me and then she slowly floated back up.
So the only variables changing were the makeup of the weights and the column of water we were swimming in since it was a shore dive.
My question is: Does the composition or make up of the weight material (such as lead compared to iron) make a difference underwater if they weighted the same on the surface?
Or, is the underlying factor the column of saltwater (depth) under us?
Or, could it be she used an anchor line to lower her to a point on the boat dive where her wetsuit compressed enough?
What weighs more underwater? A pound of surface lead or a pound of surface feathers (or iron)?