Hi,
I am fairly new to SCUBA diving and only have 13 dives under my belt. At the weekend I went diving for the first time this year mainly to try out the new equipment I have bought. Everything was fine during the decent (we only went to 12 meters max) but on the ascent the automatic shoulder dump on my Northern Diver Cortex dry suit seemed to stop dumping air at about 6 meters, which meant I could no longer control my rate of ascent. This was not fun and was pretty scary. No matter what I did I could not seem to make the valve dump sufficient air to keep me neutrally buoyant. I had to keep fining downwards to regain control. I believe the problem to be related to the under suit I was wearing (a weezle extreme plus) which I think was blocking the dump valve when the air was expanding inside the dry suit.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems with under suits hindering the dump valve?
I am fairly new to SCUBA diving and only have 13 dives under my belt. At the weekend I went diving for the first time this year mainly to try out the new equipment I have bought. Everything was fine during the decent (we only went to 12 meters max) but on the ascent the automatic shoulder dump on my Northern Diver Cortex dry suit seemed to stop dumping air at about 6 meters, which meant I could no longer control my rate of ascent. This was not fun and was pretty scary. No matter what I did I could not seem to make the valve dump sufficient air to keep me neutrally buoyant. I had to keep fining downwards to regain control. I believe the problem to be related to the under suit I was wearing (a weezle extreme plus) which I think was blocking the dump valve when the air was expanding inside the dry suit.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems with under suits hindering the dump valve?