Dry Gloves

[davecampbell]

I usually just pull the thumb loop from my thermals out through the wrist seal (it's not looped over my thumb @ that point) to allow the movement of air between the suit and the dryglove, but recently had one slip back into the suit while having to really reach up and forward during a dive. The pic shows the result.... thankfully it stayed attached during ascent.

 

[flymolo]

How do you pull the bungee out? Take the glove off entirely while underwater?

i use the showa 720s mounted on a set of kubi rings. when they do get punctures in them it seems to be of the slow leak variety and not a catastrophic flood so i haven't needed to pull the equalization tubes out. if you use the stock kubi gloves i could imagine they they would tear and flood catastrophically

 

[Badger7]

Even if you do a lot of diving, putting a hole or small tear in a showa glove is going to be like a once a year type issue, and remember your suit should be about the same pressure inside and out, so its not like someone is pointing a garden hose up your glove, even a large tear in your dryglove is just going to result in a soggy arm, even if you don't remove the equalization tube, even if you finish the dive, just keep that arm down instead of raising your hand on the way back up. For the next dive you'll obviously want new gloves and fresh dry undergarments. This isn't something I'd overthink.

TBH, when diving dry gloves I use wrist seals that are cut down a few rings and I just leave the thumb loops from my undergarments over my thumbs to equalize the gloves. I've torn gloves a couple times during trash cleanup and the only price to pay was a fresh pair of $5 gloves, cold fingers and a damp arm, not a suit flood, no danger or inconvenience other than the obvious.

 

[Wibble]

Dry gloves leak. It's when not if. Thicker gloves are more leak resistant than thin gloves (e.g. G17k gloves). But even the thickest gloves will still leak as often there's issues with O-rings or the glove seal.

If you slash your glove -- easily done diving around a sharp wreck -- then you need to be able to quickly remove the string/whatever under the wrist seal before your drysuit floods.

Using a thumb loop really isn't good as getting it off your thumb underwater is difficult especially in cold water that's flooding into your suit!

Much better to have a disposable piece of string with a figure-8 knot that you can, in extremis underwater you take your glove off, grab the knot and pull it out of your wrist seal to stop the leak. With a larger knot you may be able to do this without removing your glove.

Have some personal experience of using undersuit thumb loops and a shredded glove on a wreck. Won't repeat that mistake again.