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Old 10-09-2008, 08:53 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Compudude,
Why ascend horizontally? Are you trying to avoid being hit in the noggin' by some idiot in a boat who thinks it is funny to run his boat up against a dive flag float? Because I think that is discriminatory against idiots in boats.
We don't generally dive in boat traffic zones here in SoCal. And you never see a dive float outside of a class. In situations like those, though, it makes sense to go vertical for the last 10' or so of the ascent.

Otherwise, horizontal is a better position to do pretty much everything from.

More info here: feet first decents or swim down? huh? (I posted #25) Ascents and descents are not that different, except you need to be a lot slower on the ascent.
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