Silly cold today but good vis

[matt_unique]

My buddies and I just returned from Folly (Cat was covered with ice all the way to the water). What a cold day....water temp was 35 degrees and the air temp was lower. I was using dry gloves for the first time. Unbelievable difference in comfort...One of those "why did I ever dive with wet gloves" type of moment. I had a similar experience the first time I dove dry coming from a wetsuit. If anyone is still diving with wet gloves (with cold hands) spring the cake for the dry gloves - you will not regret it. I have the Diving Concepts 'snap' type seals w/neoprene gloves and liner. Hard plastic rings on suit and gloves and glove ring snaps into place via a large o-ring.

We had good vis - about 20' - and the surge was not that bad. Watch your as* walking down over the rocks from the parking lot though. Cat would have been insane. Anybody else take advantage of the calm before the storm today?

--Matt

 

[AlaskaDiver]

Water temp & vis seems about the same here in Alaska. Those 7 mil lobster style mitts are only used when my spare dry gloves are wet as well. Dry gloves are so comfy and you end up retaining greater mobility of your hands. You can also wear some nice double liners.

 

[matt_unique]

Water temp & vis seems about the same here in Alaska. Those 7 mil lobster style mitts are only used when my spare dry gloves are wet as well. Dry gloves are so comfy and you end up retaining greater mobility of your hands. You can also wear some nice double liners.

I'm sure you get some of the coldest temps out your way. For NE this is pretty chilly. Though it will get colder.

Dry gloves are just awesome. This was my first time with this "new toy".

 

[Scubar]

Glad to hear that you like those dry gloves everyone raves about them, I just got my Diving Consepts Suit back yesterday with the same set up. I cannot wait to try them.

 

[matt_unique]

Glad to hear that you like those dry gloves everyone raves about them, I just got my Diving Consepts Suit back yesterday with the same set up. I cannot wait to try them.

Depending upon the size of your hands you may find extra play at the end of the fingers in the gloves. When air is added to your suit the gloves slide up a bit causing some space between the end of your fingers and the end of the gloves. You may need to get these small velcro cinch straps to squeeze the gloves a bit over your wrists to take up some of this space. In fact, most of my friends with dry gloves have to use these straps. I will need the same with my gloves.

--Matt

 

[AlaskaDiver]

I do not have the zip ons, but I see a lot of the folks here who like them. (I actually haven't met anyone who does not like their particular choice of dry gloves - aside from sizing issues). I have the regular commercial fisherman style gloves (already lined) on rings. I purchased an extra seyt of rings so I can put on a perfectly dry set for a second day of diving when we are remote. I got some Isotoner-like (cheap) gloves to keep my hands warm when I take them off and am simply sitting in my car for my SI. Those gloves literally take two weeks to dry out if water gets into them. The lobster mitts can dry over night as long as you turn them completely inside out.

 

[Soggy]

A word of warning regarding the neoprene drygloves...mine basically disintegrated after a summer of use....I was patching multiple holes in them every dive. Due to the nature of the compressed neoprene, they are very difficult to identify holes in. I've since switched to the blue PVC gloves and have had far fewer problems...plus they are only $12 a pair.

 

[matt_unique]

A word of warning regarding the neoprene drygloves...mine basically disintegrated after a summer of use....I was patching multiple holes in them every dive. Due to the nature of the compressed neoprene, they are very difficult to identify holes in. I've since switched to the blue PVC gloves and have had far fewer problems...plus they are only $12 a pair.

What kind of neoprene gloves were they? Were you using them for lobstering?

--Matt

 

[Soggy]

What kind of neoprene gloves were they? Were you using them for lobstering?

--Matt

They were the Diving Concepts gloves. I lobstered with them a few times, but stopped after the first few holes. Others I have talked to had the same problems with the compressed neoprene gloves.

The bonus is that leaks in the neoprene gloves are less catestrophic compared with the pvc gloves...if the pvc glove gets a leak, you *know* it.

 

[matt_unique]

They were the Diving Concepts gloves. I lobstered with them a few times, but stopped after the first few holes. Others I have talked to had the same problems with the compressed neoprene gloves.

The bonus is that leaks in the neoprene gloves are less catestrophic compared with the pvc gloves...if the pvc glove gets a leak, you *know* it.

I was thinking if I did lobster with these things I would buy regular work gloves to go over them. I'm sure the spikes on the bugs could spear right through these gloves.

--Matt