Underwear Ripoff...?

[Don Burke]

Shoot. I totally thought this thread would be about something else. :yl2jump:

Like something off Aquatapes?

 

[boatdiver842]

OK, what do you all think about this...

I have done a few dry suit dives (DUI demo days for the past two years)... finally decided to go with a custom Diving Concepts Ultraflex (which I just ordered!). Now comes the question of the undergarment.

I understand that in general, you get what you pay for. And I also understand that when it comes to the dry suit itself, it makes sense to get something of good quality- a rip in a dry suit can be very uncomfortable at best, and life threatening at worse. But the dry suit and lots of other SCUBA equipment are sort of binary when it comes to failure or performance- they either work fine or they fail.

My question is- how does anyone justify paying $500 for underwear? I'm sure that the $500 underwear is nice and stretchy and very warm, but how come I can keep warm with $20 worth of material when I'm skiing in Colorado? I mean, assuming that the suit itself is doing its job (not leaking), then the underwear is just to trap air and keep that warm air layer between me and the ocean.

Of course I understand that the more I pay, the warmer I'll be, etc... but there must be some sort of break point in this product. I can't believe that I couldn't be pretty comfortable with less expensive dive underwear or even with some sort of non-SCUBA underlayer...?

Or am I totally wrong, and unless I spend a few hundred dollars on this, I might as well be diving wet..?

Thanks!

Mike

Try google for WEEZLE under garment.

 

[mossym]

head on over to thedecostop.com and do a searh for weezle, i read some concerns over there about weezle blocking the exhaust valves in your drysuit..might be worth reading

 

[doctormike]

head on over to thedecostop.com and do a searh for weezle, i read some concerns over there about weezle blocking the exhaust valves in your drysuit..might be worth reading

OK.. will check it out..!

Mike

 

[doctormike]

head on over to thedecostop.com and do a searh for weezle, i read some concerns over there about weezle blocking the exhaust valves in your drysuit..might be worth reading

I just spoke with Larry at ScubaToys- great guy, very helpful! Are you affilitated with the store? You have the link in your sig.

Anyway, he was telling me that the Whites Glacier MK series undergarment was a good choice ($220 for the system with removable sleeves, etc..).

Any thought about this one?

Mike

 

[jonnythan]

I'm pretty sure mossym has nothing to do with ScubaToys. Neither do I.

Several SB users have the link in our sig because (I'm not trying to speak for anyone else, but this seems to be the consensus as well as my personal opinion) ScubaToys is the perfect model for the LDS that does it right (forgive the term). Internet sales, excellent customer service, knowledge and experience, full factory warranties, great prices, etc. But that's for another thread.. there are plenty in the Kudos forum

 

[mossym]

I'm pretty sure mossym has nothing to do with ScubaToys. Neither do I.

Several SB users have the link in our sig because (I'm not trying to speak for anyone else, but this seems to be the consensus as well as my personal opinion) ScubaToys is the perfect model for the LDS that does it right (forgive the term). Internet sales, excellent customer service, knowledge and experience, full factory warranties, great prices, etc. But that's for another thread.. there are plenty in the Kudos forum

nope nothing to do with scubatoys, except i've bought from there and have never been disappointed. Larry has helped me and many others out on this board. If we spread the word among new users, i think it's our way of saying thanks...

i met someone on a liveaboard a few months back and who loved it, unfortunately i hadn't started diving my drysuit then, so i had no frame of reference..

 

[doctormike]

i met someone on a liveaboard a few months back and who loved it, unfortunately i hadn't started diving my drysuit then, so i had no frame of reference..

Yup.. they look pretty sharp too!

http://www.whitesdiving.com/index.php?id=43&cid=57

 

[mossym]

i like the layering, means if your locations change you can adapt the undergarment....very handy...if i hadn't have gotten the DC stuff i had been considering checking out the whites stuff..

 

[doctormike]

i like the layering, means if your locations change you can adapt the undergarment....very handy...if i hadn't have gotten the DC stuff i had been considering checking out the whites stuff..

Sure, and I don't need to have DC underwear just because I got a DC dry suit..!