MaxTorque
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Question: Is there any established rules or thumb of formula's for the loss of human body volume vs depth (compressive pressure)??
I believe in freediving one weights for the max depth to which you are dropping (so persumably one has to swim down harder to start with when you are going deeper?) but on a single (surface) breath they clearly don't have the AGE risk as a diver on SCUBA does in the event of a rapid ascent.
Is most of the volume lost from our exposure protection (probably the case with thick wetsuits) or does our body also compress a bit due to disolved gases in un-accessable (from non perfused) tissues?
If one establishes that say it is possible to swim up from say (arbitrarily) 15m depth with a fully deflated bcd with the weighing being carried, what does that actually mean from a max depth you could swim up from perspective?
The question arises with respect to having non-ditchable weights on a scuba system without redundant buoyancy ie wetsuit + bcd, rather than drysuit + bcd (not considering a dSMB as extra redundant buoyancy, although that is one possible option clearly)
I believe in freediving one weights for the max depth to which you are dropping (so persumably one has to swim down harder to start with when you are going deeper?) but on a single (surface) breath they clearly don't have the AGE risk as a diver on SCUBA does in the event of a rapid ascent.
Is most of the volume lost from our exposure protection (probably the case with thick wetsuits) or does our body also compress a bit due to disolved gases in un-accessable (from non perfused) tissues?
If one establishes that say it is possible to swim up from say (arbitrarily) 15m depth with a fully deflated bcd with the weighing being carried, what does that actually mean from a max depth you could swim up from perspective?
The question arises with respect to having non-ditchable weights on a scuba system without redundant buoyancy ie wetsuit + bcd, rather than drysuit + bcd (not considering a dSMB as extra redundant buoyancy, although that is one possible option clearly)