Why dry gloves are in blue color?

[Zef]

Highly recommend the Showa 720 nitrile glove....they are extremely durable, they do not become as stiff as the PVC gloves, and are much more cut/tear/puncture resistant than latex gloves.

They are also flocked with acrylic instead of cotton so they dry quicker if they get wet and they tend not to develop the funk that cotton flocked gloves develop.

-Z

 

[dewdropsonrosa]

This industrial glove supply merchant's blog suggests that blue is used for non-latex gloves (usually nitrile) as a visual indicator that it's safe to use for people who do have latex allergies.

 

[buddhasummer]

I use black showas, made in Japan but cannot get them here, go figure, bought a bunch out of the UK:

Not an answer to your question though, lucky it's SB.

 

[Endler's]

Can't remember where I read it, but another diver pointed out that colored gloves make reading hand signals much easier.

(As most exposure suits/dive gear is black.)

 

[buddhasummer]

That maybe true. Most of my diving is solo. I chose form over function. Almost all wetsuit gloves are black not sure it's a real world issue. YMMV.

 

[miras]

Mhh I got blue Shova 495 gloves with the Rolock system, but saw orange Shova 620 gloves on a shop. A comparison of both models on the Shova website shows that only the 495 have "thermal insulation".

 

[Etmar]

To my knowledge there are no glove specifically made for the dry diving industry, they are co-opted from products for other industries such as chemical handling. The reason the predominant color of dry gloves are blue is because that is the predominant color used by manufacturers of gloves for the industries the gloves were designed for...why they chose blue? Perhaps the common Showa/Atlas gloves were blue was a branding decision, who knows. One can find blue, orange, green, black, and I am sure a host of other colors if one searches enough (or pays enough for a custom color run).

-Z

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[tmassey]

I prefer the Ansell cut resistant chemical resistant gloves: here’s a random link.

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I like the cut resistance for the large amount of zebra muscles we have here in the Great Lakes, and they’re much less stiff than the blue Smurf gloves.

Downsides, though, are twofold: First, they’re not designed for glove liners. That has advantages: the fingers aren’t as large as sausages and don’t get bunched up or fill up the gate when you’re trying to operate snap bolts. But it does mean you need to buy a larger size if you’re going to have liners underneath them.

And the second problem for me is it turns out that my hand requires the largest size they make, so it doesn’t leave much room for liners.

Even having said that, there’s still my go to glove.

 

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[lowwall]

The largest user of nitrile gloves is the food service industry. Blue is the preferred color in food service because it is the least common food color, making blue items relatively easy to spot if they happen to fall into food that's being processed or prepared.

That's why they make stuff like these blue adhesive bandages: