This TRICK Fixes Your Buoyancy Problems

Cool video bro
How do you like your Hollis bcd ?
I just got my open water cert and am starting to look for a BCD
Keep the informative videos coming ✌🏼

I just got the Hollis ST Elite last week and took it to the pool for the first time this weekend to figure out my weights. What are you using for the the weights on the system? I have two Hollis cam band pockets but I noticed it inhibits the hook and loop from fully securing on the band. It looks like we have pretty much the same BCD setup and are about the same size in height and weight but I was nosing down. I had nothing else on the plate and was just wearing a 3mm full suit with neg buoyant fins. I ended the dive with 2lbs in each weight pocket and had to put on a weight belt with an additional 2lbs on each hip to plane out. Suggestions?

Cool! I took my OW dive in Lake Travis in 1974, I was an Army brat living at Ft Hood. Our instructors were Army divers. This was before the use of BCD's became the norm, so they had us swimming hundreds of underwater laps in an Olympic pool (no tank) and treading water with our weight belts on and no fins for what seemed like hours. Then finally the big dive in Lake Travis. I remember the water being very cold and we didn't have wetsuits. I don't remember if I had to use any extra weight for the dive. I only remember using weights in the pool for treading. AH, the good old days. At 65 now, I'd die if I had to go through that again.

New subscriber and new diver. Can you please do a video on diving and flying. We’re planning an international trip to include diving and flying. We want to be safe. Thanks!

Late to the party on this video but sure glad I saw it.
I’m a newbie seahorse diver with feet made of lead.
Thanks for ALL of the useful information you’ve shared!

Great video, thanks :)
What you said last is a bit over simplified IMHO, you do not always need more ditchable weight than you have in trim pockets. In fact, depending on the used gear, it's possible tgat you do not need ditchable weight at all.
Key word, balanced rig. Might be a more advanced topic, but is good to know I think.
Cheers

👍🇵🇭🤿😎! Once I think I got it right and I changed a piece of equipment well you know the drill!

find your weighting for you doing multiple dives and then practice buoyancy. while diving if you find a submersed pinnacle go over it and then back down using breath control instead of going around it.

Nice.

Great Topic. Your Videos have continue to get better and better. And it is reflected in the views and subscribers. Congratulations on over 12K subscribers!
I don't know why but every time you say floaty it makes me laugh. Just inside. 😂
I have ruptured disks in my neck. And because of this I can't bend my neck up as far as needed. So, I need to be a little out of trim. In addition ruptured disks in my low back. So, I can no longer tolerate a weight belt.
So we adapt to dive. Why mention all this? If it wasn't for ditch-able and trim weight pockets I wouldn't still be able to dive! 😊

Thank you again for another interesting video like this

Lake Travis! I've got some great memories from Travis. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Southwest Council of Skin Diving Clubs used to sponsor monthly spearfishing contests at 5 lakes, Lake Travis was one of them. Visibility was typically 15 to 20'. There were so many great places there to anchor and find great structure for carp. Are you from Texas? We need to get together next time you're here.

Lake Travis! They could use a good 30 feet of water. The stairs are getting harder to muster😂. Getting a buddy to film, being conscious of it, and just diving will improve anyone’s buoyancy. Great vid!
Let me know when you wanna come to soflo for some beach diving. The springs and caverns near orlando are a really fun time too! ❤

why did you choose to stay whith padi?

Floaty legs is def more common for women I believe, or at least for the women in my family lol

Great content!

Main way to improve buoyancy - is to be aware that you need to improve it.
I see a lot of seasoned vacations warriors - who thinks they are the best , and 10min later they destroy a 500 years of evolution on the sea floor while trying to use GoPro.
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I knew it !! Sea level raises because if scuba divers jumping in 👉👉😂😂

Awesome video, thank you. Another possible suggestion for people who struggle with buoyancy and trim is checking out other BCDs. My first BCD was jacket styled (55lbs lift), and came recommended by the LDS. When I swapped to my new backplate and wing (30lbs lift, stainless with 6lbs plate), I noticed an immediate improvement in buoyancy and trim. And the difference was huge!! Even fully deflated the jacket is very buoyant and required extra weight, which created a need to constantly add air; which only exasperated my buoyancy issues.
Proper sized and fitting gear is hugely important for proper trim.

For reference, on land the jacket and wing nearly weigh the same with a travel scale. But the buoyancy difference in water is hugely different.

2 weeks back i was on bali and doing owd it was great my first dive we found turtle a baracuda but my boyanci was niz perfect but at the second dive i figured out how it really work and get it much much better and 2 dives later i was doing it great and it didnt bother me at my 10th dive we found 3 sand sharks and i really enjoyed it and it was also thanks to you you teached me how to know hand signals you explained everything and thanks to it i aced the elearning and easily get owd

This is such a great idea! My lower body is always sagging down.