Normah Baharom
United Arab Emirates
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Nº12
Date: 2016-12-24 - 09:23
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Max Depth: 27.7m Duration: 34mins
Dive Location
- Surface interval:67 mins
- Temp: Surf 23°C Bottom 23°C
- Dive type : Deep dive
- Visibility: Average Water: Salt
Specific gear used
- Mask: Scubapro - Synergy TruFit
- Mask: Aqualung - Infinity
- BCD: Aqualung - Pearl
- Computer: Suunto - D6i
- Wet suit: Aqualung - 1mm
- Fins: Aqualung - Short FX
- Gloves: Aqualung - 1mm
- Knife: Aqualung - Steel
- Lift bag: Aqualung - Red
- Camera: GoPro - Hero 4 Silver
- Weights: 5 kg
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- 1. Air
- 12L Steel 200 → 50 bar
- Average depth: 22.1m
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6 Tips for Better Buoyancy Control
Minimize your weighting. Extra air in your BC, to support extra lead on your belt, will change volume and buoyancy with depth, causing you to yo-yo and preventing you from maintaining neutral buoyancy.
Check it at the safety stop. It's at the end of your dive, not the beginning, that you should be weighted for neutral buoyancy at 15 feet. That means you'll be about five pounds heavy at the beginning of the dive. (That's the weight of the air you use.)
Suspend a weight bag. Hang a mesh bag with some one-pound and two-pound weights from the boat at about 15 feet. Start the dive with two pounds or so of your weight in a BC pocket. At the safety stop, next to the weight bag, you can transfer weights between pocket and bag to find your perfect weighting.
Relax. To find neutral buoyancy, go limp. Any sculling with hands or feet will create upward thrust.
Add and subtract air in small squirts. You must wait a minute for adjustments to take effect before adding or subtracting more. The effect is not instantaneous.
Use your lungs, not your BC. Make slight temporary changes to your buoyancy by holding more or less air in your lungs. That way you don't disturb the correct inflation of your BC. Hold air with your chest, not by closing your glottis, so pressure can escape.