Drysuit Question

[ermaclob]

Just a thought......

Has anyone ever pulled a James Bond and done the drysuit tuxedo trick for one reason or the other?

Not really need to be a tuxedo, just messing around with people to show of your fancy smancy bucket of $$ scuba suit. guess it would be a good way to at least get them of your back for spending that much money on one item.

its funny to me as for some time i thought that the a suit that could keep u 100% dry was impossible or unreasonable to have. not so much that im a diver tho. every one has em
... well... not everyone.

anyone ever impress some more ignorant folks with there suit? :cool2:


for those of you who dont know what im talking about here is some reference material.
[video=youtube;geLnlRTDLKE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLnlRTDLKE[/video]

 

[TSandM]

I have a friend who worked in an office, and took the ferry in to work. She'd pull on her dry suit, do a half hour dive at the ferry dock, and then take it off and head in to the office in her work clothes. It would have been fun to take pictures of!

 

[Dive-aholic]

I've worn my undergarments to and from the dive site. On colder days it's nice to just pull off the dry suit and throw my jeans over my undergarments without having to take them off. I've also done a couple of dives with jeans under my dry suit. As long as the suit is dry, why not?

 

[violamama]

They did it on mythbusters. Pretty cute.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Depends on where you dive ... wearing a tuxedo underneath a drysuit here wouldn't be practical for more than a few minutes, as you'd literally freeze your butt off.

This time of year I do wear my undergarment to and from the dive site, so that all I have to do once I'm set up is don my suit and go diving. In warmer months, that wouldn't be very practical either ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Storker]

Has anyone ever pulled a James Bond and done the drysuit tuxedo trick for one reason or the other?

I'd love to, except for two reasons: 1. the sites we dive don't lend themselves well to fancy dress codes, and 2. my tux would need some serious cleaning and pressing after the squeeze during the last period of the dive.

I've worn my undergarments to and from the dive site.

That's pretty SOP around here, at least for those who dive a membrane suit. I haven't seen so much as a raised eyebrow when we walk into the gas station to pay for gas and buy a coke and a post-dive snack and half of the party are dressed in black padded coveralls.

Not so much if you dive a neoprene suit, though. Skintight underwear and nothing else is hardly appropriate in public even if you're young and fit. Much less if you're middle-aged and... not perfectly fit.

 

[sphyrnidus]

In the Netherlands almost everybody wears a drysuit between October and the end of May (when diving lol) and most of the people I know were the undergarment to the dive site as it is not nice to change clothes when the snowflakes land on your butt. Most often in winter time I also wear an extra layer of thermal underwear (merino wool) beneath that Bare 200 gram undergarment. Nobody ever said something about that when going for hot choco after a dive.
But wearing a tux would be a bit much except if there would be a special occasion. I do own one, so that wouldn't be a problem..

 

[herr2720]

Hell, I wear my drysuit to the and from the divesite when it's snowing outside, of course I only live 5 minutes from the lake and have been known to drive around in January with the convertible's top down...

Nothing too classy underneath, although my undergarments probably cost as much as some tuxedos...

Although you could get one of these for your wicking layer under your undergarments:

Slender Man Costume - Mens Morphsuit Skin Suit Halloween Costumes

 

[ScoobaChef]

This is actually something we've been trying to organise. There's a lot of waterfront bars that are accessible by a reasonable shore dive. Tho if anybody can take off a drysuit as smoothly as James Bond, I'd be amazed.

 

[fjpatrum]

It might be fun to do that as a group somewhere but I wouldn't want to dork up my tux for the purpose. I might do it in a nice set of clothing, maybe a nice polo and linen suit "tiki bar" attire, but not my tux.