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> From: SouthEast US Scuba Diving Travel list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mike
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>
> > >This is not necessairly true either. I have flooded my suit seriously
> > >before and have still been able to put a significant amount of air in
> > >it. I just had to keep the hole low. I had enough buoyancy left in the
> > >suit to keep my double 104's, me and the rest of my gear neutral
> > >with empty wings. Granted it was not in the most comfortable
> > >position...
> > ..and getting out of the water in a flooded suit can be a bit
> of a bugger
> > !!!!!!
>
> Yep. If it's "fully" flooded the best option is to get out of it in the
> water.. :-)

Mike, just curious. If a drysuit floods, you'd just lose bouyancy (from the
air in the drysuit), not gain extra weight (certainly you may gain drag
though). So even if you get out of the drysuit, it does not reduce the
in-water "weight" you are carrying, because immersed, the tri-lam or
neoprene and underwear will effectively weigh nothing, or even slightly
positive, and be effectively just a wetsuit. Would this be correct, and we
are so used to thinking of how heavy wet gear/clothing is on land, that we
assume the same underwater? I'm sure wet drysuit underwear would be heavy on
land, but in the water, it'll just float, or just sit there, wouldn't it?

Cheers,
Poe
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