coralreefer_1
Contributor
Hello to you all, and please mods feel free to redirect this post to a more appropriate forum is needed.
I began a Dry Suit specialization with PADI over the last weekend..mainly because it was the only thing I could do in winter.
To make a long story short, I am wondering. The PADI videos and textbook say that once submerged, the dry suit inflation/deflation is used to gain positive/negative/neutral buoyancy rather than the BCD. But I am just wondering why that is.
In this case I am training to use a dry suit so manipulation of its air is par for the course. However I cant help but wonder after this is done and one is certified...what the benefit would be to one more experienced and myself to use the Dry suit inflation rather than the BCD.
It was just my first session in the pool, but I found it way more complicated that it needed to be. Turn X valve 5 or 6 times to open, lift an arm up, lean to one side and bring arm down to bleed air, then turn 5-6 more times to close valve...and all of that done to do basically the same thing as a single button push on my BCD.
SO if dry suits main benefit is that they keep us somewhat "dry"...am I wrong in thinking that an empty dry suit (as in, non-inflated) could be worn more or less only as a shield from water/temps...and I could use the BCD to control buoyancy? Is there some reason to use the dry suit for buoyancy control instead of the BCD that I am not understanding?
I began a Dry Suit specialization with PADI over the last weekend..mainly because it was the only thing I could do in winter.
To make a long story short, I am wondering. The PADI videos and textbook say that once submerged, the dry suit inflation/deflation is used to gain positive/negative/neutral buoyancy rather than the BCD. But I am just wondering why that is.
In this case I am training to use a dry suit so manipulation of its air is par for the course. However I cant help but wonder after this is done and one is certified...what the benefit would be to one more experienced and myself to use the Dry suit inflation rather than the BCD.
It was just my first session in the pool, but I found it way more complicated that it needed to be. Turn X valve 5 or 6 times to open, lift an arm up, lean to one side and bring arm down to bleed air, then turn 5-6 more times to close valve...and all of that done to do basically the same thing as a single button push on my BCD.
SO if dry suits main benefit is that they keep us somewhat "dry"...am I wrong in thinking that an empty dry suit (as in, non-inflated) could be worn more or less only as a shield from water/temps...and I could use the BCD to control buoyancy? Is there some reason to use the dry suit for buoyancy control instead of the BCD that I am not understanding?