I got to know

[Look Out Below]

OK I've been diving for 17 years now and have always wondered why!

I'm 6'3" and weight 185 lbs. skinning as a rail. I always wear a full suit 5 mm and the problem is it takes 22 lbs of lead to get me on the bottom. Once I'm down say 80' or so I have no air in my BC and I'm buoyant as could be.
Why?

And don't say it's from the fermenting air inside of me...:eek:

[Steel Shootin']

Given that you're thin, I would have thought all that weight was needed to get you down in that suit, until it compresses, but if you add no air at all to get neutral at depth, then I'm not sure. That's a lot of weight for not needing to add any air at the bottom.

Do you ever dive a skin with the same BC and tanks? If so, how much weight do you need? What BC and tanks do you use?

Maybe it's all those lobster you're stuffing in your pocket. Their trying to swim to the surface to save themselves. :D

[Look Out Below]

No I never tried to just dive with a skin and never will! The reef is sharp...(Oh yea, your not suppose to touch it I forgot...)

I'm using a Sherwood bc not real sure of the model #.

You would of laughed if you saw me the other day with them shoved in my pocket with no legs or antenna's...:D

[f94gator]

6'3", 185 lbs?!?

For the love of God, man, EAT SOMETHING!!

[Look Out Below]

I eat and drink like a pig!!!

It's my wired out Metabolism that keeps me thin...:cool:

[johnhermes]

**** You, you lucky bastard. :D

[sbreland]

What he said. (You'll probably get a lot of that.)

[Look Out Below]

What alot of ****en...:p

[junior]

Not to break from the wonderful bit of bashing you guys are dishing out:p , but I would guess that since you are tall, your wetsuit is larger than that of a shorter person of similar weight. If you had a little more mass in that suit, you would wear less weight. Twenty-two pounds is not a rediculous amount of weight for a suit that size and thickness since you say you are a bit of a waife:D The way you breathe could have something to do with it also.

[Look Out Below]

Could be I hold my breath alot.;)

[Divin' fool]

Quit holding those farts man.... be proud of them.... just let em' go:D

[fishkilla]

i'm 6.1 and 190 and i wouldn't consider myself skinny as a rail. although i think i'm in the same category as you when it comes to food. i can devour as much as i want when i want and i can never get past 190... God bless genetics! a 5 mil wet suit is pretty thick and if it's a two piece ( farmer jon and shorty like my friends) there can be alot of buoyancy with that. i use about 12lbs of weight and a steel lp 108 with just a 3 mil suit and i'm not that heavy on the bottom. if you are using an aluminum tank then i could see how you would be light still.

[johnhermes]

Hey Fishkilla, what are you, ****ing 21 or 22. Come talk to me when your 34. I ate everything in site when I was your age and always weighed between 165 and 170 then.

[Look Out Below]

Let me tell ya!

For 8 years I used a 2 mil surf suit and still had the same problem. Well, I was cold as shit but that was different. And no it's a one piece. **** those ball huggers...

[richhermes]

I think you have a tapeworm, LOB.

[poorshot]

Allyou young guys that can eat all day and diddle all night just wait. When you get 50 plus it changes in a hurry.

[201proguide]

"pull the tapeworm out of your ass, hey!!"

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[dive4food]

It has got to be that you are holding more air in your lungs at depth than at the surface. When I first started diving 10 yrs ago, I was told the best way to figure out what amount of weight you'll need is to hop in the water with an almost empty tank. Take a semi deep breath and hold it. Get enough weight that you float with your eyes just about even with the water level. This supposedly will give you the enough weight that even at then end of the dive when you are doing your safety stop with a low tank, you should still be a bit negatively bouyant.

I dive with 24 lbs of weight when diving with my 7 mm farmer john, hood, aluminum 80.