Wetsuits at Dutch?

[landfish]

i use to think the same thing a few years back but once i went to the dry suit i never went back to my 7mm wet suit.
i think i still have it somewhere?

 

[VTernovski]

Hey guys- My advice was based on this line. If a drysuit is in someones cost range, it's the way to go at DS. I disagree that a good wetsuit is a waste of money. There are so many dives up here, especially in the summer, where a drysuit is overkill. My best case would be to own both, but I'd choose a wetsuit if forced to pick only one.


BTW- Vadim, I'm surprised. With that Siberian blood flowing in you, I thought you used a shortie for ice diving

Siberian blood? no man, I am from Central Asia...
Anyway, I don't ever think that drysuit is an overkill anywhere around here. The key is to use appropriate underguarments...

Anyway, speaking of wetsuits... I just put my 7mm 2-peice semi-dry on ebay. So if your are slim and tall, this is right up your alley.

 

[ScottyK]

Siberian blood? no man, I am from Central Asia...
Anyway, I don't ever think that drysuit is an overkill anywhere around here. The key is to use appropriate underguarments...

Anyway, speaking of wetsuits... I just put my 7mm 2-peice semi-dry on ebay. So if your are slim and tall, this is right up your alley.

Hey VT- Sorry about that. I thought I remembered you saying you were from northern Russia. I must be thinking of someone else.

By overkill, I didn't mean too hot, just too much of a PITA...

 

[VTernovski]

Hey VT- Sorry about that. I thought I remembered you saying you were from northern Russia. I must be thinking of someone else.

By overkill, I didn't mean too hot, just too much of a PITA...

PITA? for me, a wetsuit was always pain in the #&$, both in buoyancy characteristics and putting it on and taking it off, not to mention it would dry forever, and if the weather is a bit windy, putting a cold wet neoprene for a 2nd dive was always a struggle. I will never give up my dry suit! Especially now, since I am moving to heavy steep doubles, where a wetsuit is just not an option for safety reasons.

 

[ScottyK]

PITA? for me, a wetsuit was always pain in the #&$, both in buoyancy characteristics and putting it on and taking it off, not to mention it would dry forever, and if the weather is a bit windy, putting a cold wet neoprene for a 2nd dive was always a struggle. I will never give up my dry suit! Especially now, since I am moving to heavy steep doubles, where a wetsuit is just not an option for safety reasons.

I guess one man's PITA is anothers good time :slick:

 

[grouchyturtle]

I think a drysuit is more of a PITA, but around here you need it. Diving dry is so much better, but as I said, in the summer I will be using my 7mm.

VT you are right about that wind. The most pain I've ever felt, may have been taking off my 7mm the last time I used it in November at Dutch.

 

[DEEPLOU]

Before I bought my first dry suit, my friends told me "Once you go dry you will never go back"
They were right.
7mm has been hanging in the basement ever since.
Only wet suit I use is 5mm and 3mm for N.C, FL, and Carribean.

 

[rscalzo]

A wet suit (7mm) is fine for the summer, early fall at mid depths. Below the thromocline in early spring, late fall I would suggest a dry suit.

I dive dry all year around at Dutch springs while teaching due to a four dives per day norm.

 

[grouchyturtle]

Yeah now that I think about it, how many dives you do makes a big difference too. When we had that first WV dive back in October, I did 3 dives that day.

On the first I was nice and toasty at 90' in a 2 piece 7mm, but I wa freezing in the same suit on the tird dive at onlt about 40'.