FPDocMatt
Contributor
With a 3-mm neoprene wetsuit in 81-degree water at Grand Cayman I had pretty good buoyancy control, if I say so myself.
This week with a 5-mm wetsuit, and a 5-mm shorty over the top of it, in 60-degree water at Gibraltar, my buoyancy control sucks. Is it that thicker wetsuits are harder to maintain neutral buoyancy with? Could it be that colder water is more difficulty? I had aluminum tanks in the Caribbean, and steel tanks in the Mediterranean.
Or perhaps it's just that this week's dive was shallower than before, since I was doing the AOW navigation exercises in only 7 meters of water.
This week with a 5-mm wetsuit, and a 5-mm shorty over the top of it, in 60-degree water at Gibraltar, my buoyancy control sucks. Is it that thicker wetsuits are harder to maintain neutral buoyancy with? Could it be that colder water is more difficulty? I had aluminum tanks in the Caribbean, and steel tanks in the Mediterranean.
Or perhaps it's just that this week's dive was shallower than before, since I was doing the AOW navigation exercises in only 7 meters of water.