Really Cold Water and Max Obligation Time

[TSandM]

Also, I feel like I get colder in fresh water than salt.

I swear my swimming pool at 50 degrees is WAY colder than the Sound at the same temperature. No physics to it, but I agree with you, Rick.

 

[MSilvia]

I'm considering a Weezle.

After partially flooding my suit in 38F seawater at the start of my ascent from a 145' dive, I limit my deco obligation to 15 minutes with a 20 minute contingency plan. On that dive, wearing a Weezle Extreme under a BARE ATR-HD trilam suit, I learned a few things about the Weezle you might like to know.

First, be very careful when zipping your drysuit. Catching the loose outer fabric of the Weezle in my drysuit zipper was the root cause of the flood. When it pulled free late in the dive, water started trickling in.

Second, the insulation and wicking ability of the Weezle Extreme is fantastic. I fortunately only had a 12 minute deco obligation on that dive, but even with around a half-liter of near-freezing water in the suit I didn't start to feel uncomfortably cold until I was nearly done with my shallowest stop.

 

[matt_unique]

There is nothing like watching the clock to click over on your last deco stop on a cold dive. Last spring I did the Crane early in the season. I had a short profile but man I did not take my eyes off the clock for my last stop. My hands were freezing (with dry gloves and heat packs). Of course during deco you floating horizontal virtually motionless.

Brrrr....no more early season deco dives for me.

--Matt

 

[MSilvia]

Last spring I did the Crane early in the season.

Same site where I did the aforementioned leaky deco, but it was late season, not early.

 

[Daryl Morse]

After partially flooding my suit in 38F seawater at the start of my ascent from a 145' dive, I limit my deco obligation to 15 minutes with a 20 minute contingency plan. On that dive, wearing a Weezle Extreme under a BARE ATR-HD trilam suit, I learned a few things about the Weezle you might like to know.

First, be very careful when zipping your drysuit. Catching the loose outer fabric of the Weezle in my drysuit zipper was the root cause of the flood. When it pulled free late in the dive, water started trickling in.

Second, the insulation and wicking ability of the Weezle Extreme is fantastic. I fortunately only had a 12 minute deco obligation on that dive, but even with around a half-liter of near-freezing water in the suit I didn't start to feel uncomfortably cold until I was nearly done with my shallowest stop.

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but your second comment caught my attention.

Perhaps I sweat a lot, but there is quite a lot of condensation in my suit after I dive (obviously more so in the summer). In your opinion, is the Weezle better for wicking away moisture (i.e., sweat), warmer when wet and and does it dry faster during the SI, as compared with fleece?

Thanks very much.

 

[Rick Inman]

Sorry for hijacking the thread, but your second comment caught my attention.

Perhaps I sweat a lot, but there is quite a lot of condensation in my suit after I dive (obviously more so in the summer). In your opinion, is the Weezle better for wicking away moisture (i.e., sweat), warmer when wet and and does it dry faster during the SI, as compared with fleece?

Thanks very much.

I don't know about the whole outfit, because I only own the socks. But I can tell you this: At the finish of every dive I do, the wheezle extreme socks are damper than my fleece on the outside due to the superior wicking proprieties. And even if it's cold and wet outside, 15 mins. laying over the front seat of my truck and they're dry.