Shane,
Buying a drysuit is like buying a car.
Different people like different features and styling touches for reasons that are neither universally rational or logical. They like something because it works for them on many different levels. Its as simple as that.
In this thread you've strongly argued for Bare. nereas apparently like Diving Concepts and Zeagle, goes lite on the Starbucks, and appears to piss on any nearby bulkhead before zipping up, which must make him wildly popular with the charter captains.
I happen to like DUI because they make an excellent drysuit, mine has worked flawlessly for 5 or 6 years now, the zippers are incredible, the thing is bulletproof in terms of leaving it inverted on a drysuit dryer for a couple weeks at a time, and it takes incredible abuse in terms of abrasion both in caves and offshore wrecks and comes out looking great. So it works for me.
I might like a Cadillac and you might prefer a Lexus. Who cares? Either will work just fine - its a question of which one works better for your own personal tastes.
I encouraged the OP to look at DUI. I really don't care what he buys, but DUI makes a great suit.
Glad you're happy with your Bare.
Oh....I get in the drysuit in the morning some winter weekends shortly after boarding the charter boat. I may have the thing on most of the day - first dive, surface interval, and second dive. In the winter in the PNW hot coffee, cocoa, and soup make great surface interval hot wets. A pee valve comes in handy, unless you just get off whipping it out and pissing against the bulkheads. But to each their own.
Dive safe,
Doc
Buying a drysuit is like buying a car.
Different people like different features and styling touches for reasons that are neither universally rational or logical. They like something because it works for them on many different levels. Its as simple as that.
In this thread you've strongly argued for Bare. nereas apparently like Diving Concepts and Zeagle, goes lite on the Starbucks, and appears to piss on any nearby bulkhead before zipping up, which must make him wildly popular with the charter captains.
I happen to like DUI because they make an excellent drysuit, mine has worked flawlessly for 5 or 6 years now, the zippers are incredible, the thing is bulletproof in terms of leaving it inverted on a drysuit dryer for a couple weeks at a time, and it takes incredible abuse in terms of abrasion both in caves and offshore wrecks and comes out looking great. So it works for me.
I might like a Cadillac and you might prefer a Lexus. Who cares? Either will work just fine - its a question of which one works better for your own personal tastes.
I encouraged the OP to look at DUI. I really don't care what he buys, but DUI makes a great suit.
Glad you're happy with your Bare.
Oh....I get in the drysuit in the morning some winter weekends shortly after boarding the charter boat. I may have the thing on most of the day - first dive, surface interval, and second dive. In the winter in the PNW hot coffee, cocoa, and soup make great surface interval hot wets. A pee valve comes in handy, unless you just get off whipping it out and pissing against the bulkheads. But to each their own.
Dive safe,
Doc
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