woodcarver
Contributor
This has been a hilarious thread! Well worth the time and laughter to read the years of "adventures".
My girlfriend and I decided we should get drysuit certified because of where we live and the fact that every training dive happens in this really deep, cold, cow pond down in New Mexico.
The lds at that time only had a couple drysuits to rent. I'm just shy of 6’, 175#, she's 5’2, oh, right, she weighs a lot less. They bring out the 2 suits, I can't tell the difference in size, so we each put one on. I can see the gap in the seal around her neck and mine seems snug, so we decide to trade. A little better, but her suit sure looked big. Time to get in the pool.
Geared up, went through all the reminders with the instructor. He explained what drills we would do and off to the deep end. So far, so good, but I'm getting damp.
When we reached the bottom, the idea was to do a roll to get the air out of the legs. When she went legs up, both fins squirted off with the boots when the air hit the bottom. There were 4 of us trying to pull the boots back on with her upside down in a drysuit that had about 10” more leg than she did, in 15’ of water. Meanwhile, when I went vertical to help, I learned that my neck seal was way bigger than my neck as all the air left, to be replaced with water!
We finally had to just swim her back to the shallow end. It's amazing we didn't knock her reg out, but she handled it pretty well.
I took my drysuit off in the pool. Not sure the seams would have held with the volume of water.
We bought our own drysuits before we went to Blue Hole. That's another story….
My girlfriend and I decided we should get drysuit certified because of where we live and the fact that every training dive happens in this really deep, cold, cow pond down in New Mexico.
The lds at that time only had a couple drysuits to rent. I'm just shy of 6’, 175#, she's 5’2, oh, right, she weighs a lot less. They bring out the 2 suits, I can't tell the difference in size, so we each put one on. I can see the gap in the seal around her neck and mine seems snug, so we decide to trade. A little better, but her suit sure looked big. Time to get in the pool.
Geared up, went through all the reminders with the instructor. He explained what drills we would do and off to the deep end. So far, so good, but I'm getting damp.
When we reached the bottom, the idea was to do a roll to get the air out of the legs. When she went legs up, both fins squirted off with the boots when the air hit the bottom. There were 4 of us trying to pull the boots back on with her upside down in a drysuit that had about 10” more leg than she did, in 15’ of water. Meanwhile, when I went vertical to help, I learned that my neck seal was way bigger than my neck as all the air left, to be replaced with water!
We finally had to just swim her back to the shallow end. It's amazing we didn't knock her reg out, but she handled it pretty well.
I took my drysuit off in the pool. Not sure the seams would have held with the volume of water.
We bought our own drysuits before we went to Blue Hole. That's another story….
