vladodessit
Contributor
This might be kinda longish. Disclaimer: I have no interest in the company, I paid for my suit and doing this review on my own initiative. THis might be longish.
Alright. once in a while I feel adventurous and take risks. So, what's the worst that could happen if I order a MTM drysuit from across the globe, never seeing it in person, only from reviews and photos? Right? Here it comes. I heard of the brand a while ago. Ocean Works was repairing a lof dry suits for many years and decided to start their manufacturing some time ago. I've heard the name on the web, photos looked good but that was it. When I started diving dry, I first got a used Waterproof suit and cheap undergarment from Ebay. Later I ordered and got Sea Skin Nova with thier undergarment. It's worked well with few problems, no big issues at all. But I stopped liking my old Waterproof and decided to get a new suit to use Sea Skin as a backup. I've used DUI FLX rental before when had my suit serviced, it was alright. I didn't like Ursuit workmanship. I didn't like how lower priced DUI looked and how they were made. Never dove them. Santi is Santi, never dove one, I'm sure it's great but I didn't think it was worth the money.
So, I remembered about Frogman. I found them again, asked what owners thought of it. There were few sceptical people. But most were happy with the suit. And I decided to pull the plug.
After back and forth on the Facebook messenger and e-mail, I placed an order for my MTM Frogman Tech. I decided against Armor as I've heard some negative things about having a full kevlar suit. I got QuickNeck and Slaggo for the seal systems. Apex high profile valve and a black base suit with khaki overlay and signature orange stitching. I didn't like their p-valve options (they had either Sitech Trigon or Ursuit equivalent of Halcyon but price was too high on it), so I opted to install it myself later. Placed the order on Nov. 17, 2020.
On Dec. 23 I got a message that the suit was ready. As far as I know (and according to them), this is the first Frogman in Americas, so, we had to figure out a good delivery option. We opted for EMS to the tune of $82 charge.
And I got my suit on Jan. 12. Less then 2 month for a MTM fully customized suit from order to delivery from Europe. Not bad, right?
Now I had this box at my door with a nice looking bag inside
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Alright. once in a while I feel adventurous and take risks. So, what's the worst that could happen if I order a MTM drysuit from across the globe, never seeing it in person, only from reviews and photos? Right? Here it comes. I heard of the brand a while ago. Ocean Works was repairing a lof dry suits for many years and decided to start their manufacturing some time ago. I've heard the name on the web, photos looked good but that was it. When I started diving dry, I first got a used Waterproof suit and cheap undergarment from Ebay. Later I ordered and got Sea Skin Nova with thier undergarment. It's worked well with few problems, no big issues at all. But I stopped liking my old Waterproof and decided to get a new suit to use Sea Skin as a backup. I've used DUI FLX rental before when had my suit serviced, it was alright. I didn't like Ursuit workmanship. I didn't like how lower priced DUI looked and how they were made. Never dove them. Santi is Santi, never dove one, I'm sure it's great but I didn't think it was worth the money.
So, I remembered about Frogman. I found them again, asked what owners thought of it. There were few sceptical people. But most were happy with the suit. And I decided to pull the plug.
After back and forth on the Facebook messenger and e-mail, I placed an order for my MTM Frogman Tech. I decided against Armor as I've heard some negative things about having a full kevlar suit. I got QuickNeck and Slaggo for the seal systems. Apex high profile valve and a black base suit with khaki overlay and signature orange stitching. I didn't like their p-valve options (they had either Sitech Trigon or Ursuit equivalent of Halcyon but price was too high on it), so I opted to install it myself later. Placed the order on Nov. 17, 2020.
On Dec. 23 I got a message that the suit was ready. As far as I know (and according to them), this is the first Frogman in Americas, so, we had to figure out a good delivery option. We opted for EMS to the tune of $82 charge.
And I got my suit on Jan. 12. Less then 2 month for a MTM fully customized suit from order to delivery from Europe. Not bad, right?
Now I had this box at my door with a nice looking bag inside
