I have recently spoken to a friendly local bad ass diver with some serious DIR background, who apparently eats 200ft wrecks for breakfast, and he argued somewhat convincingly that one day, dry gloves will kill you when they fail while you have a deco obligation. He implied that real divers use wet gloves, and that this knowledge does not come from the Internet, but from decades of actual experience hauling lots of tanks into all kinds of scary places. I wonder why this aspect of equipment configuration has not (to the best of my knowledge) been standardized.