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Breathing in and breathing out

 Adding and delivering air out of your scuba BCD

 The thickness from the suit you put on

 Diving in fresh or saltwater

 Adding or getting rid of weight out of your belt

 Diving tank capacity

 Aluminum or metal diving tank

 Pretended diving depth

 The body weight

Buoyancy control tips. First the fundamentals

Pending around the thickness of the diving neoprene suit, Scuba Diving a diver generally needs 1kg of weight for each 10kgs of bodyweight. Should you weigh 70kgs for instance, then most likely you'll need 7kgs of lead around your waist.


Actually, to ocean diving. In freshwater will require around 25% less weight. So after that 70kgs example, you will simply need roughly 5.25kgs of lead.

Obtaining the weight in fresh or saltwater

Following what I’ve just pointed out above, you have to, used, discover the required weight you need permanently buoyancy control. First of all you need to practice this inside a lake where it´s calm, so obtain access to a freshwater pool.

Gear yourself up and make certain your scuba BCD is totally empty, no air whatsoever within the bladder.

If you work with an aluminum diving tank, make certain it's full. In case your diving tank consists of metal it´s best to get at that buoyancy control level when the tank has only 70 or 50 bar.

Get within the water with 2kgs under what you´ve calculated. Remember you´re inside a freshwater pool. Stick the snorkel inside your mouth.

What you will be striving for is to achieve the level right across your mask, level together with your eyes, with your lung area half full. Stay calm as this takes a little of persistence and exercise.

Gradually by using small weights, remove or add weight til you have arrived at that much cla together with your lung area half full.

If you have arrived at this level you ought to have just your face immersed whenever you fully inhale so when you fully exhale your mind ought to be fully immersed with only your snorkel adhering from the water.

Keep in mind that when you are diving, your tank because it gradually empties will end up positively buoyant. Scuba Diving This really is more pronounced diving with aluminum tanks then with metal ones.

With that said, keep in mind that for the finish of the dive and when you are climbing to that particular 3 meter safety stop, you may be positively buoyant. So add a little of additional weight the very first dive just just in case and take away weight in small batches the next dives.

Don't overload yourself with weight, reasons are:

 Less weight you need to take with you loading and unloading the greater

 Less air wasted in clogging your gutters scuba BCD

 Less strain lying on your back whilst in the water

 Less effort to get neutrally buoyant

 Better hydrodynamics

 Less energy consumed swimming

 And lastly, less air consumption leading to more bottom time. Isn´t which were all of the fun is?!!!