Reef Fish wrote:
>Lee is known to take some GOOD advice (on diving techniques) by
>others and turn them into ridiculous statements by himself because
>he didn't understand them.
>
>Here's an example about small up-and-down movements during a dive
>by BREATH control (rather than by kicking or adjusting air in the
>BCD). Lee turned that into HIS claim that because he is such a
>good diver, he can use breath control to adjust his buoyancy
>during the ENTIRE DIVE without adding or releasing air from his
>BCD ...
I won't discuss the quality of his posts or the fact that I disagree
with his response to me, but I do in fact agree that (in warm water
with just a 'shorty wetsuit') it is very possible to do an entire
dive without any air in the BCD. I used to do it all the time, and
dive with 5 pounds or 2 kg of weight. You need to modify your
breathing style to normally carry the "Functional Residual Capacity"
(just relaxed expiration). If you breathe in and then out at a
moderate rate, it doesn't actually help you to retain air in your
lungs anyway. It's far more relaxing not to have to worry about
altering your BCD through the dive.
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Ken Tough |