To Drysuit or Not

[buddhasummer]

Agree with most others, if you're fine in your wet then I wouldn't bother going dry. I recently bought a drysuit as winter temps here are too cold for wet diving. It's nice that I can extend my dive season to whole year but I'm looking forward to summer so I can get back into my wetsuit, so much easier to dive in. If I could I'd dive wet all year.

 

[SubMariner]

I have been thinking about investing into a dry suit in the next year or so, but not sure if I should or not. I currently dive with a 7/5 with 3mm hood and gloves and I am quite comfortable in the water with them on in water to 55-60. I am moving down south and need a lighter wetsuit so I dont get burnt up as bad. I was wondering that with a drysuit would it provide the range of warmth that I would need, from cold (50-60) to warm water (70-80)?

Also what other drysuit companies do demo days other than DUI?

We are transplanted Canadians. When we lived in TGWN I wore a 5mm neoprene drysuit, 5mm gauntlets, 5 mm hood.

When we moved to Atlanta we invested in a pair of DUI TLS350s. We have literally used them all over the world: Red Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Florida rivers & springs, you name it. My only other suit is a full 3mm. That's it.

A shell drysuit gives you much more flexibility in exposure protection: you can layer on as much or as little as you require. Layers can be as simple as a long pair of lightweight pants & a similar long sleeved t-shirt to multiple layers under sweats. It's all up to you.

Also, you will have more mobility & require less weight than what you currently wear. Especially if you dive with a steel tank &/or steel bp/wings.

We are big DUI fans, but I'm sure there are many others to choose from. Whatever one you choose, you won't regret ditching all that neoprene for a trilam or bilam.

FWIW,