Apnealizer

Here is todays dive as speed vs depth diagram, my favourite for analysing speed at different depth. Today I was experimenting with adding more kicks during the free fall phase. As you can see I did two kicks at around 45 and 60 meters. Here I tried to relax and keep my “natural” posture after each kick. It’s clear in the graph that I slow down to a terminal velocity after each kick. So even though I speed up, there is very little speed gain here. However, at around 70 meters I do another kick where I also try to straighten my body and monofin to be more vertically aligned with the rope. Because of this I get less drag and my speed actually increases! There is of course always a trade off between straight posture and relaxation. This dive was about 4 seconds faster to reach 100 than my previous dive. So for me it is probably worth it.