sirpatty79
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Hey everybody,
I got a shell suit the other day second hand. It was a lightly used factory demo so I got a great deal. This was my first time diving dry and the squeeze was pretty bad. I'm wondering if the suit fits me well enough or not. When I treid to add air to solve the squeeze deal, only the torso portion of the suit seemed to fill up, leaving the waist and below still shrink-wrapped to me really tightly, which was very uncomfortable. I only wore shorts underneath so I'm sure that's part of the reason the squeeze was painful around my mid leg area. The suit is baggy on me so I thought maybe that was the reason it was so hard to equalize the squeeze. That it would require much more air to equalize than if the suit was less roomy inside. You obviously dont want to have to add too much air right? Because that will make the suit more bouyantly unstable (inverted leg launch) won't it? So, could this problem just be from inexperience w/ drysuit diving or does it sound like a bad fit?
I'd like some of you guys and gals w/ drysuit experience to weigh in on this issue if you wouldn't mind. Thanks a bunch!
I got a shell suit the other day second hand. It was a lightly used factory demo so I got a great deal. This was my first time diving dry and the squeeze was pretty bad. I'm wondering if the suit fits me well enough or not. When I treid to add air to solve the squeeze deal, only the torso portion of the suit seemed to fill up, leaving the waist and below still shrink-wrapped to me really tightly, which was very uncomfortable. I only wore shorts underneath so I'm sure that's part of the reason the squeeze was painful around my mid leg area. The suit is baggy on me so I thought maybe that was the reason it was so hard to equalize the squeeze. That it would require much more air to equalize than if the suit was less roomy inside. You obviously dont want to have to add too much air right? Because that will make the suit more bouyantly unstable (inverted leg launch) won't it? So, could this problem just be from inexperience w/ drysuit diving or does it sound like a bad fit?
I'd like some of you guys and gals w/ drysuit experience to weigh in on this issue if you wouldn't mind. Thanks a bunch!