Question

A scuba diver wears weights as well as a buoyancy compensator to establish neutral buoyancy while diving. The buoyancy compensator can either be inflated with air or the air in it can be released. Explain how a scuba diver uses the buoyancy compensator to dive and to rise back to the surface.

Answer 1

With more air is more buoyancy. When deflated or released the scuba diver is less buoyant.

Step-by-step explanation:

The compensator is a Buoyancy control device that has an inflatable air bladder.When we have more air out into the inflatable bladder, then one is more buoyant. If the air is released from the bladder, then one is less buoyant. We add air through an air inflation valve. Air is also then released using air-deflation valves.

Buoyancy can be defined as an upward force which is exerted on an object that is fully or partially immersed in water

when one is less buoyant than water, it means that the upward pressure is more than the downward pressure of that person and his equipment. Then he will float. In a case of negative buoyancy, we have downward pressure of this person and his equipment to be more than the upward pressure of the water. Then sinking will happen.