You have a number of options as others have indicated. I dive under the ice and spend somewhere from 60, 70, 80 to 90 mins underwater that is at 1 C or 34 F. What do I wear?
1)Dacor 3 finger 5 mm neoprene gloves. Using these gloves I can still get to my SPG clip, stage clips, reel or safety spool double enders. I do however try to remember to alternate hands and cary my HID light in both hands during the dive because the metal goodman handle saps away the heat from your hand on the long dives that we do. If you loose the integrity of the glove this is not devastating. We are often twenty to thirty mins swim from the hole so we have to be very careful about equipment failure, and manage this risk the best possiblew way.
Atternatively, if we are diving shallow, less than 60 - 70 feet, I may use dry gloves. If you are diving wet you can still use dry gloves. Which you are probably asking? DUI, SI5, blue dry gloves with wrist seals work really well. They have a liner incorporated into the glove so you just talc up and put your hand in the glove, remove excess air, do a water test then dive. A good number of divers use these gloves with a dry suit and use a small tube or peice of fabric that passes under their dry suit wrist seal and dry glove wrist seal. This then allows them to equalize the glove pressure. I dive dry but avoid the small tube or fabric to equalize because, if I loose the integity of the glove my hand will get soaked and so will my arm. So when dry suit diving, for long dives, when the exit time could be 20 or 30 mins we do not use the little device to equalize the pressure in the glove. I have used these dry gloves, without the little tube, down to 100' and the glove is so squeezed that your hand feels vac packed. It is not painfull. The problem is, there is little or no insulation so your hand will get cold really quickly so I do not advise you to use these gloves below 60 to 70 feet.
Hope this helps
Derrick
