Drysuit for Pacific Northwest

[MikeHoncho]

This is going to sound weird, but I took two dry suit classes. I wasn't comfortable enough with my dry suit knowledge and skills after the first one (PADI), so awhile later I took another one (SDI). In fact, during the first one I had considerable trouble during the first pool dive because of a tight neck seal. Usually I think specialty classes are a waste of time. But for me, and I think this would not be the case for very many other people at all, this is what I needed for dry suit.

I took two also. The first was the most money I spent on nothing I've experienced. Essentially swimming around in my suit in a pool for about 20 minutes. It took me a couple dives after certification to learn that you actually can dial the exhaust valve when I was manually venting every time (I should have read the manual to my suit). The second was a half day lecture with two open water dives. I learned more in that half day than I did in my whole OW. Platforms and instructors are everything and my second class was at about 50 dives in my suit.