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Monofin's buoyancy

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georgeg

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Hello freedivers,

My question in this thread is about my monofin's buoyancy. I usually do continuous kicks in my dynamics, but trying to do some dynamics with kick-and-glide style dynamics, I noticed that my monofin has an extremely positive buoyancy. My monofin is a Waterway Glide, which I bought a year ago.

Has anyone noticed a similar problem with his/her Glide or any other monofin? Any ideas what to do about it?
 
Two pieces of inner tube from a car tire, one around each footpocket with the weight in between. Jury rigged it in Sharm 2008 and never bothered to change it since.
 
Could also use a light neckweight around your ankles.
Mines 600g
 
I thought about that too, but I think it will be a bit more uncomfortable. Anyway, I will try both

Also, I am very curious how could monofins from the same manufacturer have so different buoyancy?! My dive buddies and I have three Glide monofins, one with extremely negative buoyancy(3 years old), mine with extremely positive buoyancy(1 year old) and one with neutral buoyancy(bought 3-4 months after mine). I can't understand what they are doing! Anyway, I hope I will solve my problem with your tips
 
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Maybe they were custom made fins. At Starfins I had the opportunity to choose the depth where the fin should be neutral. But a new fin might have a higher buoyancy since the neoprene hasn't been compressed yet. On the other side, when you took the fin too greater depths the fin will loose quite some buoyancy after a while.
 
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