Does wearing a full body wet suit make it easier to float in deep water?
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It does affect your buoyancy quite a bit.  That is why divers have to wear weight belts or have integrated weight systems when diving. A lot will depend on how thick the suit is and how it fits you as well.
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Swim under the water.  That builds up more endurance.  Go side to side in the pool.  You can probably go one way without taking a breath.  You definitely need goggles for this. Underwater is often the fastest way because there is less turbulence.
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its not like youre gonna wet your suit any more\n\nget it? wet suit?
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From what I know, swimming helps because you lose weight while  working your legs out in a minimal capacity, so they get lean. That or you could try walking a lot, so as not to work out your legs too hard but still losing weight.
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When diving below about 10 feet, the pressure increases more than 25%- Generally, your ear canal holds a bubble of water, at least initially, so in effect the increased pressure on your eardrum is air pressure.  There would be no significant effect on the rest of your body at all-a 25% increase isn't much.  Deep sea divers can work quite well in pressures many multiples of the standard at sea level-and the gas mixture entering the lungs at that depth is the same as the total pressure exerted on the diver.  At very high pressures like this, more gas will dissolve in the blood, and then when the pressure decreases (as when the diver is surfacing) that increased dissolved gas will start to come out of solution-sort of like CO2 comes out of a can of soda when you open it...not good for you at all!  This is called "the bends", is extremely painful and potentially fatal- TO get around this, divers come up very slowly, so the gas coming out of the blood can be expelled by the lungs.  \nBut, to be more direct, an increase in pressure of only 25% is equivalent to a dive of 10 feet into water- you ears would pop just like when you fly in an airplane, nothing more
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The reason you floated better in the ocean is because the density of salt water is different than regular water. \n\nThink about keeping your hips high. If you're on your back, press the back of your neck/head to the bottom. If you're on your stomach, it's very natural for your legs to sink slightly. Just keep your hips up!
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Actually there are wet suits with back zip and with front zip. It's just a matter of  preference and fashion.\n\nThiner and short wet suits have them back because they can be used for surf too and being in front can damage the board.
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It may feel a bit unusual for a few minutes, but then it will feel very good.\n\nHit the swimming pool at soon as possible.  Once you have enjoyed a refreshing skinnydip, you will never want to wear a wet bathing suit ever again.
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Not everyone can float. Usually thin people cannot. Due to the fact of not much body fat to displace the water. Larger people can, becuse of body fat. I am not picking on large people. Just stating a fact. I too am a large frame person with about 30% body fat.
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Wetsuits are designed to allow a small amount of water in and it will heat up with your body heat and keeping you from hypothermia. Different thickness levels of suits are made for the various water temeratures. Dry Suits are pressurized and keep all water out and are used for colder water diving but I have seen some people use them in the Florida Keys during Winter months.\nI wear my swimsuit underneath so that I am not naked after removing the wetsuit after a dive! lol
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I'm sorry for your loss.  \n\nIt depends on a lot of things.  How full of air the lungs were, amount of body fat, what the body was wearing, a rate of decomposition (which varies).  Also if the skin was broken, water could enter the body, thus increasing its density and allowing it to sink.\n\nAlso affecting buoyancy are salinity and temperature of the water.
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Sounds very cool, are you going to wear an immersion suit, or something to protect you from the cold water? Is the Zoar sport a "sit on top"? I like those best as it forces you to wear some kind of Cold water suit, and if you go over it's bum first, feet last to get back on. Take care, and don't forget to wear your PFD.
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All you need is the swimsuit to keep you comfortable. Get a snug fitting wetsuit -- as snug as you can -- and dust it with a little cornstarch before you put it on. That way you can slide into it easily. The easiest way to get out of a wetsuit is (and I'm not making this up) in the shower. Stand under a nice warm shower and peel it off. And that hot water feels sooo good! One of our favorite dive sites used to be Rosario Beach on the Pacific Coast, where they had hot water showers for 25 cents.
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Yes. The salt water is denser and thus easier to float on. I have tried this in the Great Salt Lake and experienced it first hand.
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apo2_99 is wrong, you do sweat, but your in a pool so who cares.  but there are many advantages.  good for cardiocascular stuff, both aerobic and anaerobic activity.  stretches out your muscles, relieves stress, helps you sleep, keeps you in shape/ gets you in shape.  very fun.  good way to avoid drowning.  and just by learning to swim, you'll be a better swimmer than 95% of the world, so that is cool.
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The purpose of a dry suit is to keep warm.  They keep you warmer than a wet suit, which allows water to circulate slowly between the suit and your skin.
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whoissarthak's idea works, but that isn't a wet suit; that's a dry suit.  A wet suit works differently.  The idea is that there are basically three ways to move heat: conduction, radiation, and convection.  Conduction is when two things are in direct contact, like touching a hot stove or a cold flagpole.  Radiation has to do with the infrared light emited by warm bodies, and has nothing much to do with your project.  Convection is the real concern--it is the transfer of heat by means of a fluid intermediate, and it is the fast form of heat loss.\n\nYou're body sheds heat by means of perspiration, where sweat evaporates and takes heat away with it--that's convection.  When you fell colder in a strong breexe, that's convection taking heat away quicker.  When you blow on a spoon of hot soup to cool it, that's convection.\n\nThe way a wetsuit works is by not allowing the water in contact with the skin to be carried away.  It inhibits the movement of water through it.  Enough gets in to contact the skin and make your skin wet, which is why they call it a wetsuit, but that water doesn't leave easily.  It stays put and your body heats up the water.  Hence, the water in your wetsuit is much warmer than the water in the surrounding ocean, so the water taking heat from your skin is not quickly carried away and replaced by more cold water.\n\nIf you want to make a wetsuit, you want something htat will make it difficult (but not impossible) for water to come and go.