#4586
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If you properly weight yourself so that you have just enough negative buoyancy to stay submerged, and you happen to be wearing a dry suit, then when you put air in your dry suit you tend to become neutrally buoyant, and you don’t have a need to use a BCD to control your buoyancy. Some of the "ancient" divers up here, down here for you, still dive solely with a backboard, and dry suit.
Couple of disturbing things about what you said , disturbing because you claim to be a divemaster, and this seems like common dive sense:
From Diver123: What happens if when the valve sticks, the good year tire man will shoot to the surface like a cork.
The same thing you would hopefully do if your BC inflator is stuck, pop the hose, vent as necessary, and abort the dive. You don’t need to take a technical course to figure either of those out just common sense.
From Diver123: your dry suit was intended to keep you warm, dry and releave squeeze,
Your dry suit was not intended to relieve squeeze, your wet suit does a better job of doing that, as it equalizes without having to add air; because relieving squeeze, after all, is just equalizing the pressure between inside and outside the suit.
From Diver123: Until then you should learn to use you equipment as it was intended.
Yes, you should like weights, and how to properly weight yourself. And dry suits like what to do should you have a run on inflator, because whether you’re using your BC as a primary buoyancy control or not, if it happens and you don’t know what to do you’re S.O.L.
Just to bust even more.
From Diver123: Would you use one of your back up lights as a primary light going into the dive?
Yes, yes I would. It’s bright enough, why not?
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