Like terminal velocity of an object falling in the air, is there the same said type terminal velocity for objects sinking in water? If so, how deep would an object have to be sinking in order to reach the speed? Does the weight of the object in water affect the speed as well?
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All i can add to this, is that as a freediver, we experience/cherish something we call “**free fall**” No propulsion, just letting gravity pull you towards the deep, once the pressure has compressed the air in the body enough, to give us negative buoyancy. We try to achieve “streamline”; being as long and slender as possible, arms close to the body, keeping a “straight line” with the body.
The speed is almost always **1m/s**.
That is also the speed we try to keep on the way up, because we don’t want to exert to much physical force, since it would lead to spending too much oxygen.
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