Wearing Microprene under a 7mm suit?

[rcohn]

I really feel the two hoods on top of each other is causing this problem. Any merit to this thinking? I am getting ready to cut the hood off the cheater vest and wear the vest under my 7mm and just use the seperate hood. I'd like to hear if you guys think I'm right before I decapitate my $150 (wtf!) Henderson Titanium cheater vest. After hearing the posts above I may just buy the .5 mm Henderson Mircoprene jumpsuit for underneath. I'd love to hear how some you guys like it who just ordered it. Thanks!

There might be, too much tightness around the neck can be dangerous. I know a freediver that colapsed and nearly passed out on the boat from a too tight suit.

Can you try diving without the vest to see if it is the culprit? It might make sense to by a cheap hoodless vest and keep the hooded vest intact for future use.

Ralph

 

[Quarrior]

I really start feeling the chill. QUOTE]

I'm curious, do you get out of your wet suit between dives? If not, I think what you are experiencing is not the cold from the water, but, the cold created by evaporation when you are out of the water.

Basically, as the wet suit dries, it is sucking heat away from your body with it.

Just my 2 cents.

Brian

 

[ChrisA]

Hi all I dive in the atlantic off the New Jersey coast where bottom temps in summer are about 50 degrees F (10 degrees C). I use a 7mm farmer john with hood and gloves. I started using a 3mm cheater vest that has 5mm hood attached to it. I noticed using the separate hood from my farmer john on top of the cheater vest hood it is very tight on my head. It's not terribly uncomfortable, but several times I have gotten lightheaded underwater and one time I started feeling very nausious and I thought was gonna puke underwater (maybe vertigo?). I really feel the two hoods on top of each other is causing this problem. Any merit to this thinking? I am getting ready to cut the hood off the cheater vest and wear the vest under my 7mm and just use the seperate hood. I'd like to hear if you guys think I'm right before I decapitate my $150 (wtf!) Henderson Titanium cheater vest. After hearing the posts above I may just buy the .5 mm Henderson Mircoprene jumpsuit for underneath. I'd love to hear how some you guys like it who just ordered it. Thanks!

One other option: Go to a costom wetsuit maker and have them make the hood larger. They can cut it down the center and add a 1 inch or 3/4 inch pannel. Or for that matter make you anything you want. Or put a 7mm hood on your 7mm full suit. Sounds to me like you have a "fit" problem and $50 of tailoring would help.

Being to tight in the neck cuts blood flow to the brain, splitting a seam and addinf a filller pannel is the fix, Back when I was a kid and had zero money I would have used wetsuit glue and done the work myself. It's not hard.

 

[theskull]

Dudes, once you buy 2 wetsuits, 2 hoods, microprene, skin, and leather underpants--

you've already paid more than for a single drysuit with simple undergarments, which will be comfortable in any temp between 35-70 F. Not sure what that translates to in Kelvin or other metric increments. And drysuits come in S, M, & L--you don't have to deal with the mm metrics that they told us in grade school would some day be important to our lives.

Half serious, half joking. . . you figure out which half is which!

theskull