Dave wrote:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:16:08 GMT, Rosalie B.
said:

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:12:09 GMT, Rosalie B.
said:

if I wear a wet suit, I am too buoyant
to stay down.

Everyone is. That's what weight belts are for.

But not when free diving.

Why not? The weight on the belt can be adjusted to provide neutral buoyancy
just as it can with tanks on. Only difference I can see is that you might
want to keep a very slight positive buoyancy rather than going for entirely
neutral.

I don't have enough confidence in my ability to do that. I've been
positively buoyant my whole life even when I was young and fit and
relatively skinny. I wouldn't know how to deal with neutral. (About
30 years ago I did a life saving class checkout for another
instructor, and I required each student to 'save' me, tow me around
the pool and pull me out, and one of the students commented as he was
towing me that I was easy to tow because I was just like a flotation
cushion.)

grandma Rosalie