Smurf Gloves / Warm Liners??

[Rick Inman]

My blue dry suit Smurf gloves came with built-in liners, which I cut out and sewed elastic wrist bands onto so they're independent. Works great! Anyway, now that water temps have dropped in my area to around 40C, my fingers start getting REALLY cold after 30 minutes. Any suggestions? I'm thinking of seeing if my local Army/Navy surplus has polypro glove liners to wear underneath. What do you think?
Thanks!!
Rick

 

[Tractor Tom]

I was thinking about the same thing. My Viking Glove system came with some 'short' polypro liners that are very light in weight. I stopped over to the army-navy store and got some old green wool glove liners to put inside the gloves.

We'll be diving at Gilboa on 3 January, and that water is bound to be cold, so I'll let you know if it works!

 

[buff]

I get very cold hands when the sun goes behind a cloud.

I dove this summer and my hands got cold wearing a pair of Northern Diver's 5 mm. gloves. And the gloves are a hassle to put on.

I am buying Diving Concepts ring system so that the gloves are just attached. Diving Concepts includes a 2mm. compressed neoprene glove with the rings. I have heard good and bad about the included gloves but I am willing to try them since I am tired of liners getting all tangled up in the Smurf gloves.

 

[Soggy]

Rick Inman once bubbled...
Anyway, now that water temps have dropped in my area to around 40C, my fingers start getting REALLY cold after 30 minutes.

Wow...you must have really poor cold tolerance to be chilled in 40C water. My baths aren't much warmer than that.

 

[Snowbear]

Extra liners DO help - as does raising up your hands to get a shot of warm air in the gloves....

 

[Rick Inman]

Snowbear once bubbled...
Extra liners DO help - as does raising up your hands to get a shot of warm air in the gloves....

I'll try the liners, thanks. And yes, I do life my hands for a shot now and then. In fact, it's my light-holding hand that gets the coldest 'cause it's always lower and therefor more squoozed.

 

[Rick Inman]

Soggy once bubbled...


Wow...you must have really poor cold tolerance to be chilled in 40C water. My baths aren't much warmer than that.

Oh yeah?? I see in your profile picture that you're wearing a wet suit IN A POOL!!!
HA!!!!

 

[scubasean]

Rick Inman once bubbled...
Anyway, now that water temps have dropped in my area to around 40C

This must be a typo....40C is over 100F (the boiling point of fresh water)

No way you are wearing a drysuit in 100F water.

LOL

 

[Boogie711]

The boiling point of water is 232 degrees F. It's 100 degree's Celsius.

Although yes, 40C is hot. For water, it's unheard of. But it's not anywhere NEAR boiling.

 

[Rick Inman]

OK, I meant, "F" for Fahrenheit, of course. Anyway, tried the liners today and no difference. Oh, well...