Slmason.72
Contributor
I Dive and love my aqualung dimension i3, but am having a hell of a time finding neutral horizontal trim. With a 3 mil wetsuit, 3 mil vest and hood and 3 mil shorts, I use 8 lbs in fresh water, 4-6 in salt with a shorty... I keep all of this weight in the trim pockets, have the tank shoved up so far I cant get my head all the way back and still can't keep from going feet down when neutral... Mind you, I have no trouble maintaining neutral, even at the end of the dive, but I'd like to get my trim set horizontally. I have about 30 dives under my belt and have even done a PPb course hoping to fix this... The instructor ended up just shaking his head. I do have a very low body fat percentage and am somewhat muscular. I sink like a stone and cannot float (think swimming not diving) at all in fresh water without very actively paddling or kicking. I can snorkel in salt water without a flotation device, but only horizontally... If I go vertical, I have to kick to stay up...
I have heard of something called a trim leveler but the website is dead... Is there a way to move the weight further up my back? While typing this, I just had an idea... Since I have the tank shoved so far up, I might have room for another tank band near the shoulder of the tank, I could strap a couple of small weight pockets up there and try to get my cent of gravity to shift even more... I'd really like to get my tank back down a few inches as I'm not fond of the dimple starting to develop in my skull, yet am not willing to give up and hang vertical all of the time.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Anyone else have this problem?
I have heard of something called a trim leveler but the website is dead... Is there a way to move the weight further up my back? While typing this, I just had an idea... Since I have the tank shoved so far up, I might have room for another tank band near the shoulder of the tank, I could strap a couple of small weight pockets up there and try to get my cent of gravity to shift even more... I'd really like to get my tank back down a few inches as I'm not fond of the dimple starting to develop in my skull, yet am not willing to give up and hang vertical all of the time.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Anyone else have this problem?