Been reading as many post as I can find about weighting ones self on the board and elsehwere. My wife and I over the winter took some pool time with an instructor to work on boyancy and well just to keep the feel for diving as we are new and knew we would be diving again come spring.
My question is this, my wife (she is fairly boyant to start) at this point is using around 28lbs in the ocean with an AL80 and her exposure suit (a 1mm with a 5mm over it, 5mm hood and gloves and booties). From all that I have read this seems like too much weight, but even doing pre dive weight test she floats while lungs are full and sinks slowly as she lets the air out of her lungs.
While watching her in the water she seems fine she free assends just fine actually better control than I (Im not out of control she is just in better control), she fins along with no major issues on control (were always working on our boyancy but she does good for our experience). Her major issue is decending, with out that much weight (at least while shore diving) she struggles with getting down and has tried different approaches.
I just recently read about air pockets in and around the BC or exposure suit and I am going to be more observant of her on our next dive. But, with reading all these post of people using 10-15 pounds with a 7mm for example, I just wonder what else we can do to get her weight down. I do realize we will continue to improve over time, just hoping to get some more pointers.
Thanks
My question is this, my wife (she is fairly boyant to start) at this point is using around 28lbs in the ocean with an AL80 and her exposure suit (a 1mm with a 5mm over it, 5mm hood and gloves and booties). From all that I have read this seems like too much weight, but even doing pre dive weight test she floats while lungs are full and sinks slowly as she lets the air out of her lungs.
While watching her in the water she seems fine she free assends just fine actually better control than I (Im not out of control she is just in better control), she fins along with no major issues on control (were always working on our boyancy but she does good for our experience). Her major issue is decending, with out that much weight (at least while shore diving) she struggles with getting down and has tried different approaches.
I just recently read about air pockets in and around the BC or exposure suit and I am going to be more observant of her on our next dive. But, with reading all these post of people using 10-15 pounds with a 7mm for example, I just wonder what else we can do to get her weight down. I do realize we will continue to improve over time, just hoping to get some more pointers.
Thanks