GUE Dry Suit Course

[calicant]

My wife and I are going to do a GUE dry suit training course with Steve Millington this weekend. We had dived on two week long vacations in tropical Belize, done two introductory dives at Catalina (in 7mm wetsuits) with Steve earlier this year and had a brief gear check at a Hollywood Divers pool day (again with Steve). We wish we had learned to dive in California as the 7mm wetsuits may not have felt so horrible to us, however, Belize and PADI get the credit for enticing us and making it easy for us to get under the water. Steve made it easy for us to make the difficult warm to cold water transition! We were unable to travel this year so we had money to buy dry suits which we thought would help us endure the harsh cold (to us) while we train and practice here in California,with the aim of increasing our enjoyment of tropical reef diving trips. If we find ourselves underlayering our undergraments and penetrating a wreck at Scapa Flow with can lights and odd gas mixtures I'll hold up my hands and confess I we had limited vision!

We think GUE is an interesting guide for our diving journey.

 

[ScubaSam]

Steve is a great instructor. It's going to be a fun class.

 

[ligersandtions]

Very excited for you and Riz! Can't wait to hear about your class and get some local diving in with you two


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[TSandM]

We were unable to travel this year so we had money to buy dry suits which we thought would help us endure the harsh cold (to us) while we train and practice here in California,with the aim of increasing our enjoyment of tropical reef diving trips.

Oh, I think you'll find the drysuit gives you a lot more than that! It is really very easy to stay warm in SoCal temperatures -- and I mean really, comfortably WARM. And that increases one's enthusiasm for local diving . . . and you have some of the best diving where you are that exists ANYWHERE! Frolicking with juvenile sea lions off Anacapa; hydrocoral and corynactis anemones at San Miguel; the sunlight streaming down through the kelp off Catalina . . . you've got a world of wonder that will open to you, when you are comfortable diving it!

 

[Ramsy]

Drysuits are not just for cold water diving. My wife and I dove our TLS 350's in 84 degree water in Indonesia. Once you dive dry, you will never want to dive wet again. Have fun in your class. Steve is a great instructor.

 

[calicant]

Oh, I think you'll find the drysuit gives you a lot more than that! It is really very easy to stay warm in SoCal temperatures -- and I mean really, comfortably WARM. And that increases one's enthusiasm for local diving . . . and you have some of the best diving where you are that exists ANYWHERE! Frolicking with juvenile sea lions off Anacapa; hydrocoral and corynactis anemones at San Miguel; the sunlight streaming down through the kelp off Catalina . . . you've got a world of wonder that will open to you, when you are comfortable diving it!

We are both looking forward to the sea lions which we have seen in posted videos. If we get to like diving here as much as in tropical waters then I see much more upside to our diving enjoyment which has already blown us away!

 

[calicant]

Drysuits are not just for cold water diving. My wife and I dove our TLS 350's in 84 degree water in Indonesia. Once you dive dry, you will never want to dive wet again. Have fun in your class. Steve is a great instructor.

Quite a few people as well as you have said that! We can't yet appreciate why we would want to dive dry in warm waters. I plan to travel without our dry suits to Roatan in December. A 3mm wet suit seems much more appealing to me at this time.

 

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[Rainer]

Quite a few people as well as you have said that! We can't yet appreciate why we would want to dive dry in warm waters. I plan to travel without our dry suits to Roatan in December. A 3mm wet suit seems much more appealing to me at this time.

Jen and I took our dry suits to Roatan earlier this year:

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Was pretty happy to have them. Being cold sucks.

Great about your class. Steve's a wonderful instructor. Look forward to diving with you and Riz off the Spectre at the end of the month!

 

[ligersandtions]

Ramsy and his wife, Rainer and his wife, and my husband and I all brought drysuits to various tropical destinations this year (think the water temperatures ranged from 79F - 86F if I remember correctly) and all six of us were very happy with our decisions! Diving dry in tropical water isn't for everyone, but it sure was nice for the amount of diving we all did....to be the only people on a boat not shivering after a dive is pretty darn nice!

Have fun in your class....you already know my thoughts on Steve as an instructor, diver, and friend See you on the Spectre (if not before)!