Posted by Steve on March 12, 2001 at 21:29:21:
In Reply to: Re: reserve buoyancy posted by Gerry Smith on March 12, 2001 at 11:29:54:
Well not naked but without any bouyancy/insulation suit whatsoever.
I dived the Nekton Pilot out of Florida to the Islands and they had steel 95 tanks in 88 degree water. I wore no ditchable lead at all. I swam down and swam up and didn't really need the BC. Safety, it didn't seem to safe but it felt good. It's hard to believe that some would condemn my -8 lb HP100 full neutral when empty and say that a AL80 is safer. Why is it safer? It would force my to add 6 lbs more lead and if I had to ditch 27 lbs instead of 21 lbs my ascent would be more dangerous.
Steve