Quote Originally Posted by Quero View Post
... I'm quite new at drysuit diving. I was told that the emergency procedure for a runaway ascent is to lift the arms and let the air flow out of the wrist seals. I suppose this won't work if the suit has those zip-seal dry gloves attached, though.

Anyway, I'd be interested in hearing people's experience in using this arm-raising emergency technique. I noticed when I was last diving dry and taking photos that when I would lift the camera to shoot upwards (getting more light) some air did escape from the wrist seals.
Hmmmm, I'm not so sure ............. I've never been able to that on my suit ... either on my wrist or neck seals ............ at least not without massively over inflating the suit.

You can yank open the neck seal if you are heads up and have time but that is not so easy when wearing gloves and if the suit has a neck collar and the seals are latex. Not to mention cold and wet ......... still, that's better than getting bent. My suit seals are the Manchette(sp?) style and they have a large contact area with the skin. The conical latex seals and the neoprene seals may be easier to grab hold of or disrupt the contact area with the skin?

Of course, in my case, I should have pulled the drysuit whip off the suit but I didn't figure out the cause of the problem until I was back on the boat.

It was a dumb thing to allow to happen but, once again, it demonstrates how fast things can happen and why I chose a shallow dive to get back into diving again. Had I access to a pool I would have gone in there before the dive.

Anyway, I have admitted my muppetry to the world and feel a better person for it. I just need to become a better diver again! The problem is that, because of my lay off, I am behind everyone else in dive preparation and all boat dives locally are deeper than I want to do until I have had a successful dive again ............. I may have to go and dive in a pond ......... oh God, NO!!!!