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[tacky]

I would much rather dive in my dry suit and be warm than use my 5 mm and be cold, which I would be in 20 C. A rubber dry suit with only a thin layer of wool would definitively not be too warm (such a suit basically has no thermal protection, it just keeps you dry).

I don't need more weight for my rubber dry suit than my 5mm.

 

[Rabu]

I don't think I will go with a dry suit, cause I'm planning on using the suit I bring while snorkeling too.
I've never used a 7mm so I don't know how it feels but is it true that it's quite difficult to move in? I am going to use an underwater camera with strobe, so moveability is quite important.

 

[large_diver]

I was there in the beginning of April 2009 and wore a 5mm the entire week - I was never too warm. Water was somewhere around 21-22. Dahab is a pretty breezy place...so drysuit would sure be nice in Feb when you get out of the water

 

[hg frogman]

I don't need more weight for my rubber dry suit than my 5mm.

First time I hear of such a lead-free drysuit.

Maybe you dived with a steel tank in Oslo (drysuit) and with an aluminum tank in Nuweiba (5 mm wetsuit) ? That makes up to 4 kilograms of difference + 1 kg for the extra salt in the Red Sea.

If your very first dives were with your 5 mm you may misjudge the amount of weights necessary with it (in other words, maybe now you'd need less lead with a 5 mm wetsuit).

Anyway if your rubber drysuit really doesn't require more lead than a 5 mm wetsuit (all else equal, i.e. tank, BCD, regulator, fins, torch, knife, water salinity, etc) please tell me its name so I can run and buy one for my wife .

 

[tacky]

I should maybe have written "I don't need much more weight" for my dry suit than my 5mm as I haven't tried it with only thin wool (would've been way too cold). But I need about 3-4 kilos more in the Read sea than in Norway with my 5mm, which is kinda explained with the alu and extra salt. So it might be a kilo or to on the negative or the plus side with the 5mm, but not much more than that, I think.

Of course, diving with a neoprene dry suit would've been a completely different story.

Actually, my first dives were with 5 mm thick neoprene dry suit. Since that, I've dived with a rubber dry suit (VIKING PROTECH) a 3 mm shorty and a 5mm BARE of some brand.