1. Add more air to your suit so you don't feel squeezed.
2. Stop dangling around upside down to keep the air going to your feet...when this happens the parts of your body lowest in the water column will squeeze down as the air will rise upwards.
3. Stay horizontal or very slightly head-up trim...to keep the air bubble focused around your torso.
4. If the air bubble in your suit is rolling around then perhaps you need a thicker undergarment that provides a little more separation between your body and the suit material and lofts better.
5. You may need to add some lead to adjust your balast to comfortably dive with more air in your suit.
6. Drysuit diving is not the same as wetsuit diving....if you don't accept that then you are bound to have a bad time.
7. The notion that the suit is for warmth and the BC/wing is for buoyancy makes sense but only after a certain point in terms of depth....for the first 15 meters of the water column (+/-) one needs to add air to reduce squeeze to be comfortable....that same air adds to buoyancy....there is no reason to add air to the BC until you are at a depth that the amount of air in your suit keeps you comfortable but you still need added buoyancy....if you are not comfortable then you should be adding air to the suit not the BC/wing.
8. I dive a fusion bullet...same inner suit as your KVR1, it just has a neoprene outer skin instead of a kevlar skin. The neoprene skin keeps thing compressed but not in a restricting way, it helps slow the movement of the air bubble in my suit. While other divers have the air bubble in their suits shoot around inside the suit, I can feel the air bubble gently roll/move from shoulder to shoulder or along my body as I change position in the water.
9. The inner core of the fusion suits, including the KVR1, have humongous oversize cut. I posted pictures of my aircore inflated while hanging from a beam in our veranda....the damned things is enormous. That is a great feature for if you are unsure of the size suit you want or want a suit that will be adaptive to changes in your body morphology, but there are obvious drawbacks to the design that one needs to contend with, one being that the extra space in the bag means it may take more air to be comfortable or it may be easy to put too much air in and control its position.
10. I have never dived a KVR so I don't know if it is stretchy or not....perhaps swap out the skin for an Aqualung bullet or tech skin...I know they can be purchased through DRIS.
11. There have been discussions on scubaboard in the past where it was referenced that crushed or compressed neoprene suits are easier to manage squeeze. I would recommend contact Bruce Justinen of SeaSoft....he has contributed on Scuba Board in the past but for some reason his name is not linking. From my understanding, he makes good quality suits, perhaps he has sometihing in his arsenal that might work better for you than the KVR1.
12. I don't think you need to suck up discomfort or that it is manly to bear the discomfort of suit squeeze, but you must realize that if you are going to dive as if you are wearing a wetsuit with relative indifference to your body position then the air bubble will move to the highest point and the rest of your body will feel a squeeze....if you go vertical with your head up, there is a good chance the air will dump out your shoulder dump which will cause you to need to add air to the suit....the fix for this is to stay horizontal as much as possible...my avatar is a picture of me from below while wearing my fusion bullet. That is the relative position I maintain throughout the dive....I try to ascend and descend while in a horizontal position and try to only become vertical when I am back at the surface.
I hope this helps. Good luck,
-Z
2. Stop dangling around upside down to keep the air going to your feet...when this happens the parts of your body lowest in the water column will squeeze down as the air will rise upwards.
3. Stay horizontal or very slightly head-up trim...to keep the air bubble focused around your torso.
4. If the air bubble in your suit is rolling around then perhaps you need a thicker undergarment that provides a little more separation between your body and the suit material and lofts better.
5. You may need to add some lead to adjust your balast to comfortably dive with more air in your suit.
6. Drysuit diving is not the same as wetsuit diving....if you don't accept that then you are bound to have a bad time.
7. The notion that the suit is for warmth and the BC/wing is for buoyancy makes sense but only after a certain point in terms of depth....for the first 15 meters of the water column (+/-) one needs to add air to reduce squeeze to be comfortable....that same air adds to buoyancy....there is no reason to add air to the BC until you are at a depth that the amount of air in your suit keeps you comfortable but you still need added buoyancy....if you are not comfortable then you should be adding air to the suit not the BC/wing.
8. I dive a fusion bullet...same inner suit as your KVR1, it just has a neoprene outer skin instead of a kevlar skin. The neoprene skin keeps thing compressed but not in a restricting way, it helps slow the movement of the air bubble in my suit. While other divers have the air bubble in their suits shoot around inside the suit, I can feel the air bubble gently roll/move from shoulder to shoulder or along my body as I change position in the water.
9. The inner core of the fusion suits, including the KVR1, have humongous oversize cut. I posted pictures of my aircore inflated while hanging from a beam in our veranda....the damned things is enormous. That is a great feature for if you are unsure of the size suit you want or want a suit that will be adaptive to changes in your body morphology, but there are obvious drawbacks to the design that one needs to contend with, one being that the extra space in the bag means it may take more air to be comfortable or it may be easy to put too much air in and control its position.
10. I have never dived a KVR so I don't know if it is stretchy or not....perhaps swap out the skin for an Aqualung bullet or tech skin...I know they can be purchased through DRIS.
11. There have been discussions on scubaboard in the past where it was referenced that crushed or compressed neoprene suits are easier to manage squeeze. I would recommend contact Bruce Justinen of SeaSoft....he has contributed on Scuba Board in the past but for some reason his name is not linking. From my understanding, he makes good quality suits, perhaps he has sometihing in his arsenal that might work better for you than the KVR1.
12. I don't think you need to suck up discomfort or that it is manly to bear the discomfort of suit squeeze, but you must realize that if you are going to dive as if you are wearing a wetsuit with relative indifference to your body position then the air bubble will move to the highest point and the rest of your body will feel a squeeze....if you go vertical with your head up, there is a good chance the air will dump out your shoulder dump which will cause you to need to add air to the suit....the fix for this is to stay horizontal as much as possible...my avatar is a picture of me from below while wearing my fusion bullet. That is the relative position I maintain throughout the dive....I try to ascend and descend while in a horizontal position and try to only become vertical when I am back at the surface.
I hope this helps. Good luck,
-Z
