What is a good 7mm wetsuit?

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How does some one with less that 200 dives rate a suit when it is maybe their first suit. I go through a suit every year and a half, zebra mussels and plus 500 dives kill them. I liked the tilos, and have Bares with and with out the hood one piece and farmer johns, I am wearing a neosport for the Summer that is the same As the Henderson, I buy the cheap ones now that was around $150.00. Best time to buy a suit is in the Winter when they are cheaper. And yes buy the next size bigger because they shrink like hell from drying in the sun,nothing worth than getting in a suit that is to small, I wear a Large in everything but a XL in the wetsuits.

Infrequent divers get far fewer dives per suit. Even at 200 dives, I suspect a lot of divers are well beyond their first wetsuit. Also, I use my wetsuit for a lot of activities that are not logged dives, such as pond maintenance, free diving, ROV and AUV deployment, etc. In polluted urban areas, a wetsuit just hanging in the garage has a very limited useful life.
 

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