Dry suit, or something else?

[kulot]

My husband owns an engineering school here in the Philippines and one of the courses that they offer is a Marine Engineering course. Now one of the new requirements of the course is that they should have "exposure suits" that 1.) Keep the wearer dry except in the head, hand and feet area, 2.) Should self inflate, 3.) be inherently buoyant at 70 neurons, and 4.) Should protect wearer from fire for 2 seconds.

Now, is this a description of a dry suit? If it is is there any online store that is willing to deliver to the philippines? Considering we're a tropical country and the coldest the water gets is 23 C no dive shops here carry any.

If it's not a dry suit, what is it? And, does anyone know where we can purchase it?

Thanks.

 

[Diver0001]

It sounds like a type of drysuit to me. The wet feet bit makes me think it's a SAR type. Most of them aren't much good at protecting the wearer from fire, though. You'd be best off to contact the people giving the course for suggestions.

 

[teknitroxdiver]

Could also be the DUI 30/30 suit, which has no boots on it, but I really doubt if any drysuit could withstand a real fire for 2 seconds. Why is the fire protection needed?

 

[kulot]

Could also be the DUI 30/30 suit, which has no boots on it, but I really doubt if any drysuit could withstand a real fire for 2 seconds. Why is the fire protection needed?

Apparently the suits are to be used in case of emergency just in case the ship sinks, catches fire etc...etc... etc...

That's why it's supposed to keep the sailors from getting hypothermia in the water, and just in case they have to jump through a fire it has to protect them as well.

As for asking the people giving the course. Well lets put it this way. No one really has a clue as to exactly the kind of suit it really is supposed to be. We all think dry suit but the fire part really has us stumped.

 

[teknitroxdiver]

Oh I see; that's not really a drysuit. It's called a Mustang suit (well, one kind is). Here's a link: http://www.mustangsurvival.com/http://www.rescueresponse.com/store/ice-survival.html

 

[kulot]

Oh I see; that's not really a drysuit. It's called a Mustang suit (well, one kind is). Here's a link: http://www.mustangsurvival.com/http://www.rescueresponse.com/store/ice-survival.html

Thank you so much! We've been really stressing over what it was. School regulations here are very stict and the school could get into trouble of we don't get the equipment within the given deadline.

Thanks again.