Monofin's buoyancy

[georgeg]

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?

 

[Mullins]

I put about 800g of lead on mine.

 

[georgeg]

Thanks for the tip. How did you manage to put it on?

 

[Mullins]

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.

 

[georgeg]

Nice! Thank you very much for your help!

 

[watts]

Could also use a light neckweight around your ankles.
Mines 600g

 

[georgeg]

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

 

[maui400]

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.