Trying to keep my fins in the water

[Rainer]

Rich beat me to it, usually, when i'm at the surface, my bc is almost completely deflated, so I use the minimum amount of weight during a dive. If I need to decend I swim down the first few feet and then it's much easier. This would allow you to be much lower in the water. I don't know if this is the correct way to go about doing things, I'm not very experienced, but it has worked for me in the past.


edit: take into account, all of my dives have been in 7 ml wetsuits with about 25 pounds of weight on the belt/ integrated.

And you're not finding yourself mad buoyant at the end of the dive (6# swing on an AL80)?

 

[DiveMom1927]

Thanks for all these great instructions!!!! I will try some of them out!

 

[zackalack8999]

And you're not finding yourself mad buoyant at the end of the dive (6# swing on an AL80)?

Surprisingly not. I can usually maintain my buoyancy till i'm at about five feet in depth then I come up to the top.

 

[Sarah Moody]

I also agree with Rich...a fully inflated bc puts you on the surface to high...try that too.