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@Nianne -- this will be soemthing I have to look into -- THANKS
Yeah, 7 mil farmer john and 43 pounds and hot in June as well--until I hit the 45F water. We "winter" on the N. Gulf, so it's not so great returning in April. Yeah, I hate all that stuff. When I'm in NY area each summer it's shorty and 18 pounds. Don't hate that, but can still be hot as Hell.HA i remember wearing a 5m farmer john in the middle of June. I had to have 26lbs of weight and I was sooooo hot. sigh
Buoyancy is controlled through careful attention to using the right amount of weight and then using the lungs for buoyancy compensation through structured breathing patterns. For over a decade now, I've done almost all of my diving without a BC and I've enjoyed my dives more as a result of the improved streamlining and light/compact size for traveling.I was watching an old diving movie a few days ago, and I noticed that they had no BCDs like you were saying. I learned to dive as a kid in 1999, and honestly just assumed there was no other way to dive. How did they control buoyancy? Wouldn't you constantly be fighting to stay down or off the bottom? The diving seemed like constant kicking and exhausting, but that could have just been the movie. I would love to go as minimal as possible.
+1 for wetsuit (especially putting it on wet)
That shark was just slapping him for being at 57m on an AL80.Sometimes they do try...