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Another mystery of the life aquatic solved by the Scubaboard gurus. Thanks, guys.
With no fighting or bickering either! A strange time in a strange land, for certain...
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Another mystery of the life aquatic solved by the Scubaboard gurus. Thanks, guys.
When I surface, the first thing I do is what they taught me in OW class: make sure I'm positively buoyant. That means filling up my wing completely, closing my shoulder valve and putting enough gas in my suit to take off any squeeze.I always surface horizontal, then roll over on my back to lounge, stare at the sky, look at the birds, rest etc., and I always have to add air to the wing/drysuit.
Sounds hysterically drastic.When I surface, the first thing I do is what they taught me in OW class: make sure I'm positively buoyant. That means filling up my wing completely, closing my shoulder valve and putting enough gas in my suit to take off any squeeze.
There's no way I'll sink after that. Even if I lie back.
"Hysterically drastic"? Filling up my wing and relaxing from the slight suit squeeze I always have if I've breathed down my tank?Sounds hysterically drastic.
I'm going to go inverted with a reference point to see what the difference is in what I feel.When you roll upside down, your lungs are now quite far below the second stage. That means the work of breathing increases, so you have to pull harder to inflate your lungs. This will feel like you are holding your lungs more full, and so you will tend to keep a smaller lung volume resulting in sinking.