Not well-insulated nor well-off

[bubblelogist]

Personnaly diving dry is the better thing that happens to me. Diving in Canada, diving Dry allows me to start earlier and stop later... But one of my friends just believe in her wetsuit. I don't remember which one she has but she told me she did ice diving in her wet ! the main question is the fit. the one she have is a women one, and it's have her body shape.
The main question is, if you are on a budget, how long you really need more insulation. It's almost spring and weather (and water) are now warmer...

 

[pipedope]

A hooded vest adds a lot of warmth to a wet suit by both the additional neoprene AND the way it *really* cuts down on the water going down your neck.

Dry suit is the better answer overall but that only helps if you can get one.
Definately contact Bob3, he has some deals you won't understand.

 

[DA Aquamaster]

I second the vest idea. I use a 7mm semi-dry and a vest/attached hood and do quite well with 3-4 dives per day in 60 degree water as long as the weather is warm enough to keep me warm during the surface intervals. But if the water or the weather gets colder, I usually break out my dry suit. But then I am also very well adapted to the cold anyway so your milage may vary.

Used dry suits can be an excellent buy and while many LDS's will not always take them in on trade, they usually know who is trying to sell one and can hook you up with a seller with a potential suit.

 

[chrpai]

60F water for 4 hours? If you can do that in a wetsuit - any wetsuite - you're a heck of a lot tougher than I am. Get thee into a drysuit.

I've pretty much done that. A year and a half ago I did my rescue class on Nov 10 ( Hooraahhh Happy Birthday Marines ). The class was originally scheduled for October but the instructor had a kidney stone. Spent several hours at the surface and at depth doing the various excercises. Water temp was 60f and I was in a 2pc 3mil.

And if that wasnt crazy enough I went for a "fun" dive afterwords for 30minutes at 80' followed by 15 minutes of shooting the poop at the surface.

 

[bubblemaker20]

Last year I dove wet and i froze so my dive season was cut short so over the winter i saved my money and got a dry suit and the greatest underwear ever and dry gloves. I just cant take the cold but if you do go with a wet suit i would strongly advised to go with a gold core. They are so easy to get on and off and they dry so much faster.

 

[coppermaus]

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Sounds like the consensus is a dry suit. The guys I see wearing dry suits have to get out every hour or so to hit the men's room since apparently they don't like that warm wet feeling. To help them take care of things all by themselves in there, their suits have a handy zipper down low across the front. Is there a well-placed zipper for the female version? If not, what do women do?

 

[JacobsonC2]

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Sounds like the consensus is a dry suit. The guys I see wearing dry suits have to get out every hour or so to hit the men's room since apparently they don't like that warm wet feeling. To help them take care of things all by themselves in there, their suits have a handy zipper down low across the front. Is there a well-placed zipper for the female version? If not, what do women do?

i plan ahead or just hold it! :unitaz:

 

[Walter]

Depends

 

[Drew Sailbum]

Depends

Insert rim shot.

He's quite right. It's either plan ahead or use various adult incontinence products.

 

[bubblemaker20]

They have the mens pee valve but i guess a female pee valve are not in high demand