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I tried to wear a very flexible triathlon wetsuit under my Viking and it worked very well. I was warm in winter in the Puget Sound even though the wetsuit was only about 3mm thick. You should be able to pick one up from ebay for less than $200. The great advantage is that you will still be well...

Also probably worth a note is that the Hydroglove system allows you to wear a double layer suit (2 suits over each other) because it is so flexible. While most people would not do that for the whole suit, it is actually worth wearing just a second pair of the trousers so you have double...

Hmmm...best lesson I ever learned from a very experienced instructor is...NOT to try to regulate your breathing by holding it for any amount of time. During my first 30 dives or so I was worried about air consumption, regularly held my breath for 4-5 seconds almost every breath. Often ended up...

Also, here is something I tried during winter. Instead of using bulky undersuits under my drysuit (Viking in this case), I tried a triathlon wetsuit. very flexible and relatively thin, but I was warm even in a wintery Puget Sound and it allowed me to use about 3 lbs less weight. Very...

Just a quick note on the comment by Krazytomdiver posted May 27th. better not to put any silicone type products in any area that is part of the air path. If small blobs dislodge and make it into your lungs they will never come out. A lot of the silicone grease people use is not "medical" grade...

Noting the comment about ear squeeze risk above, remember you can get these suits also without hooded jacket. The jacket without hood has a much tigher neck seal, and then you don't rely on the face seal as with the hooded jacket. Just wear a separate hood, either the hydroglove or another type...

Thanks for your very interesting post, as it highlights to me how relevant it is to my own near-drowning when I was 19. I was in a large pool with a whole group of friends. Young macho guys as we were, we were dunking each other, playing wild games etc...doing what young guys do. At some point I...

here is a trick I came up with when I borrowed someone's drysuit that was a size too big for me. For those who have boots on their drysuits that are too large for their feet. And as you know, nothing more annoying than that feeling that your feet are going to pop-out of your drysuit boots while...

If the seals were only 5 years old then they were either very poor quality, or as previous posts have mentioned, exposed to factors that speed up deterioration. If it wasn't exposed to sun light, then not due to UV. Most likely due to the fact that it was an airconditioned closet, it is due...

Actually, before anyone asks, the reason why I am considering their product is because they are the only company that seems to do a custom sized rubber drysuit. Great differentiator from the rest of the industry ...IF they can actually make a good product...and if only they would reply to...

Does anyone know if Aquala is still operating? --AQUALA-- I never see their drysuits anywhere, they haven't answered my email for a long time. I am planning to buy a new drysuit and requested a couple of pieces of their suit material to see how it compares to Viking etc... but no response...

As feeding the oxygen supply via vein is of course a valid option in theory, you still can't send a diver down hundreds of feet if there is residual air in the lung. Just like an extreme version of freediving your lungs will compress further and further, causing fluid shifts from the blood into...

other tip: if your drysuit boots are too loose a fit (a problem i used to have with Viking boots, where I nneded to wear straps around my ankles or ankle weights to stop boots from popping-off), get a pair of neoprene dive socks to wear inside your boots. Plenty warm and doesn't compress or...

here's an other one I learned by experience. If you are worried about shredding your wetsuit dive boots or drysuit soft boots, on a shore dive where there are too many oyster banks, barnacles or mussels, wear a pair of rubber rainboots instead. Just make sure they are quite flexible and a good...

I like the Viking Combat as it also offers the option of front entry zipper. If you find rubber suits to be an option, look at Amron Explorer, which offers a tough suit and lots of sizing options (made by Viking so it's a quality suit)

It's pretty much been explained already but as i see it, in the liquid breathing solution you have no nitrogen, no helium, etc., so none of the toxic effects related to gasses under pressure are present so very deep dives should be possible. No such gasses in the liquid means no gasses to be...

Hmmm, some years I ago i drowned (nearly drowned is probably the correct term but I was stuck underwater until I started to drown and blacked-out). How do you comfortably make a transition from breathing air to breathing liquid? The scene in the Abbyss with the mouse is real, but you can see how...

Hmmm, some years I ago i drowned (nearly drowned is probably the correct term but I was stuck underwater until I started to drown and blacked-out). How do you comfortably make a transition from breathing air to breathing liquid? The scene in the Abbyss with the mouse is real, but you can see how...

Thinking back on 25 years of diving, most of the time the people I have known to end a dive with zero or close to zero air left are usually the ones who were to proud and stubborn to admit they used more air than their buddies. Diver ego is the one extra attribute that should have its own gauge...

Maybe someone already mentioned it, it did not go back and read the whole thread, but a lot of divers also don't realize that you can't use the last 150psi (10bar) in the tank because the valve in the first stage takes approximately that pressure to supply air to feed air via the intermediate...