moneysavr:
I have next to NO water movement in my John, the only time I did was when I forgot mine, and had to rent one that was 1 size too large. Methinks you need a smaller John.
Ken
Skin under wet suit or for tropics
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I have next to NO water movement in my John, the only time I did was when I forgot mine, and had to rent one that was 1 size too large. Methinks you need a smaller John.
Ken
ScubaDivaDivemaster:Wow, I'd say you are an anomoly jbichsel!
Have a great summer, c u underwater!,
scubadivadivemaster
I don't think he is an anomaly, I wear a 7mm even to dive New Years Day.
Ken
Shasta_man
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A 7MM suit in the Carribean?! With a hood?! I'd be dead from heat stroke before I ever got in the water.
Wow, you have been fully conditioned for the heat. 100 degrees must be nothing to you.
My range is <70? degrees = 7MM
<80 degrees = 5MM
>80 degreees = 3MM
Back on track: I second the Lycra suit thoughts. I have Hyperstretch suit (3,5,7MM and worth every cent), and use the skin to ease getting in but mostly to shield my achilles from my boot rubbing.
I don't think it provides any warmth. It does protect against the sun and the little jellies encountered in the tropics if snorkeling.
Wow, you have been fully conditioned for the heat. 100 degrees must be nothing to you.
My range is <70? degrees = 7MM
<80 degrees = 5MM
>80 degreees = 3MM
Back on track: I second the Lycra suit thoughts. I have Hyperstretch suit (3,5,7MM and worth every cent), and use the skin to ease getting in but mostly to shield my achilles from my boot rubbing.
I don't think it provides any warmth. It does protect against the sun and the little jellies encountered in the tropics if snorkeling.
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I've bowed to good advice and just ordered a Henderson "Hot Skins", from CrazyScuba. Hopefully it should arrive before my next local dive and I'll get to see how much it eases the pain off struggling into my 7mm rental.
I guess only experience will tell what I need for my diving in the tropics, but the skin will definitely come with. I only expect to be doing at most 2 dives a day, usually one (my wife is a non-diver and it won't make for much of a vacation if we're spending all our port time with me out diving), so lowering core temperature with repeated dives shouldn't be much of an issue. (This is the first reference I recall having seen to this problem. So this discussion has been educational in more than one way.) Plus I'm a pretty warm kinda guy, so I expect that the skin alone will be good for those dives. If not, then I'm sure some light-weight rentals will be available.
Thanks for all the advice, everyone.
I guess only experience will tell what I need for my diving in the tropics, but the skin will definitely come with. I only expect to be doing at most 2 dives a day, usually one (my wife is a non-diver and it won't make for much of a vacation if we're spending all our port time with me out diving), so lowering core temperature with repeated dives shouldn't be much of an issue. (This is the first reference I recall having seen to this problem. So this discussion has been educational in more than one way.) Plus I'm a pretty warm kinda guy, so I expect that the skin alone will be good for those dives. If not, then I'm sure some light-weight rentals will be available.
Thanks for all the advice, everyone.
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