Soakedlontra
Contributor
In the link below you will find the two most common gloves used which are the 490 (495) and 460 (465). The "5" part number comes with liners. Our water is slightly warmer than yours so the stock liners have worked great for me. Good dexterity from them. I have had the built in liner, and it is next to impossible to dry. The gloves tend to get stinky too. The removable liner allows you to have multiple sets, or you can set them out in the sun to dry (In the sun? Oh wait Seattle...) during your surface interval. The difference between the glove part numbers is thickness. The blue ones are slightly thicker. since I am hard on equipment and have had a couple of glove cuts/failures I stick with the thicker pair of blue gloves. Plus hand signals are easier to see with the blue gloves. To me the dry gloves offer much better dexterity than a 5mm glove as they are thinner, but warmer. The key is to have the glove fit tight. You should have to work them onto your fingers not just slide right in. That way there is no extra material creating problems. The glove does not have to go all the way to the bottom of your fingers. Many of us use a "straw" or in my case my thumb loop from my drysuit undies to allow air to pass in and out of the glove. Keeps the gloves from becoming Mickey Mouse hands on ascent, and also from compressing all the warm air into nothing. Drysuit squeeze and glove squeeze are one in the same.
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The conundrum is getting denser...:thinking:! Thanks! I will look at the link when I am not falling asleep...
My husband uses a boot drier that has two pieces of plastic shaped like hands to dry its gloves with built in liners.
good night!