Hickeys

[HPT3]

Today I took a dry suit class. I came home with a lot of tiny little hickies all over my back and shoulders. My wife doesn't know what to think. I've been squeezed.

 

[penguinbuddy]

Just have you wife see how it's like to dive! Joking, but what you really need to do is to inflate your dry suit! If your dry suit is squeezing you enough to give you Hickeys, something has to be done.

 

[Tractor Tom]

...its a good deal easier to dive in a suit that is tight, as you have less air in it to manage. I usually come out of the water with marks on my shoulders where my arms move against a tight suit. I find that I have a better time diving if the suit is very tight, and I only add enough air to it to keep it from really hurting. Was diving on Saturday in Higgins Lake (air temp 22 degrees, water temp at 40' was 44 degrees) and had too much air in the suit most of the time. Not too much fun, as I was always feeling just on the edge of control. Too much air in the suit was caused by wearing an extra layer (sweat suit) under my normal 300wt Softwear undersuit. I'll not do that again, would rather be a little cold in a tight suit than not have the ability to control my bouyancy. So my feeling is, wear the suit tight and live with the 'hickeys'...

 

[Ian Wigg]

I usually finish up with a perfect flower shaped hickey on my forearm from my cuff dump no matter how much air I put in the suit. My daughter thinks it's cute.