biggest issues diving as a female

[shoredivr]

Curious to know what women go through that men don't even recognize, obv within the context of diving

The spaces between the rungs on dive boat ladders usually are sized for the length of an average man’s legs. If you’re short it can be a struggle, and grab bars are sometimes too high or missing altogether.

 

[Redleg0811]

Not talking issues, but just want to say I dive with and know some amazing women divers. They have worked hard on their skills and it shows. I aspire to get my skills as good as theirs. One in particular, but if I ever get my skills where hers are now she will have already progressed further because she is always working on building her skills.

 

[happy-diver]

Praise where it is due and before you commit to the skills mill you may choose diving instead for the same end

 

[DCN]

Drygloves that fit. Are there any at all with shorter fingers?

 

[Wookie]

Drygloves that fit. Are there any at all with shorter fingers?

Thread 'Dry gloves for smaller hands'

Apr 2, 2017

I need smaller dry gloves. I've switched from thicker fleece liners (I never used the yellow knit liners) with the blue gloves to the Pinnacle merino liners (yeah, I know I've said merino makes me itch, but not on my hands, everywhere else on my body, yep!). The gloves are too big with the merino liners. I've got the smallest size (medium). The medium sized blue gloves are now big enough that I had issues with the inflate button on my wing yesterday.

Have been using these DRIS Dive Gear BLUE PVC Dry Suit Glove Replacement | Dive Right In Scuba - Plainfield, IL - Dive Right in...

• Marie13
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• Forum: Exposure Suits

See this thread.

 

[jordaof]

Positive aspects being a woman scuba diver:

Females, healthy and nonsmokers, generally, last a lot longer than men with the same size scuba tank, example, my female Instructor, with a 10 liter tank lasts a lot longer than myself with a 12 liter tank, so, for me, to last the same as herself, I need to be using a 15 liter scuba tank. Of course, the lack of experience, and also being a sedentary and overweight person does NOT help at all in air consumption, but she's a petite woman were a 15 liter tank is way to heavy, being 5.3 foot and 99 pounds, on the other side I have almost 6 feet and weight around 220 pounds, and sometimes even dive with a 18 liter tank that weights 44 pounds, for me to have her performance of bottom time, I need to be really heavy!

Drawbacks:

I feel that women have an extreme lack of resilience against cold water, It's horrible, seen countless times women aborting the dive and make us go up cause they are almost in hypothermia, when I was just using a wetsuit of 3 mm in 59 Fahrenheit water, I do enjoy cold water... makes all my senses sharp and ready.

 

[Tracy]

I feel that women have an extreme lack of resilience against cold water, It's horrible, seen countless times women aborting the dive and make us go up cause they are almost in hypothermia, when I was just using a wetsuit of 3 mm in 59 Fahrenheit water, I do enjoy cold water... makes all my senses sharp and ready.

That is 100% not the case for me and my wife.
My wife is normally in xerotherm bottoms with an arctic top in the Great Lakes. I am in a Halo with a baselayer and a heated vest on high the entire dive. I am always the first to wuss out and call it because I am cold. She is like a damned Polar Bear.

 

[Imla]

Drygloves that fit. Are there any at all with shorter fingers?

Yes... Nordic Blue XS or S (FUE is your dealer) Mulig DUK har noen igjen i Medium (som tilsvarer Nordic Blue sine Small)

 

[DCN]

Yes... Nordic Blue XS or S (FUE is your dealer) Mulig DUK har noen igjen i Medium (som tilsvarer Nordic Blue sine Small)

Thanks! I use the Nordic Blue gloves already, but find the fingers to be a bit long, I think I bought them in size S. Maybe I'll try some thinner gloves, but that might be a bit too cold..

 

[crofrog]

I'm pretty sure speaking for my wife a bit she'd say the she-p