Posted by Steve on March 11, 2001 at 22:48:47:
In Reply to: reserve buoyancy posted by Gerry Smith on March 11, 2001 at 19:24:01:
Gerry,
While you are working on that table I have a question. You say that your wet suit has 25 pounds of positive bouyancy and is compressed according to the gas laws, I assume Boyle's, so at 132' 5atms you claim that the wet suit now has only 5 pounds of positive bouyancy? Not counting the 10% for mechanical stiffness of the bubble wall. Gerry where did you come up with this bubble wall stiffness stuff? So at 132' you would need to add 18-20 pounds of lift to your bc to achieve neutral bouyancy. Do you have 20 pounds to drop?
Steve