OK, what do you all think about this...
I have done a few dry suit dives (DUI demo days for the past two years)... finally decided to go with a custom Diving Concepts Ultraflex (which I just ordered!). Now comes the question of the undergarment.
I understand that in general, you get what you pay for. And I also understand that when it comes to the dry suit itself, it makes sense to get something of good quality- a rip in a dry suit can be very uncomfortable at best, and life threatening at worse. But the dry suit and lots of other SCUBA equipment are sort of binary when it comes to failure or performance- they either work fine or they fail.
My question is- how does anyone justify paying $500 for underwear? I'm sure that the $500 underwear is nice and stretchy and very warm, but how come I can keep warm with $20 worth of material when I'm skiing in Colorado? I mean, assuming that the suit itself is doing its job (not leaking), then the underwear is just to trap air and keep that warm air layer between me and the ocean.
Of course I understand that the more I pay, the warmer I'll be, etc... but there must be some sort of break point in this product. I can't believe that I couldn't be pretty comfortable with less expensive dive underwear or even with some sort of non-SCUBA underlayer...?
Or am I totally wrong, and unless I spend a few hundred dollars on this, I might as well be diving wet..?
Thanks!
Mike
I have done a few dry suit dives (DUI demo days for the past two years)... finally decided to go with a custom Diving Concepts Ultraflex (which I just ordered!). Now comes the question of the undergarment.
I understand that in general, you get what you pay for. And I also understand that when it comes to the dry suit itself, it makes sense to get something of good quality- a rip in a dry suit can be very uncomfortable at best, and life threatening at worse. But the dry suit and lots of other SCUBA equipment are sort of binary when it comes to failure or performance- they either work fine or they fail.
My question is- how does anyone justify paying $500 for underwear? I'm sure that the $500 underwear is nice and stretchy and very warm, but how come I can keep warm with $20 worth of material when I'm skiing in Colorado? I mean, assuming that the suit itself is doing its job (not leaking), then the underwear is just to trap air and keep that warm air layer between me and the ocean.
Of course I understand that the more I pay, the warmer I'll be, etc... but there must be some sort of break point in this product. I can't believe that I couldn't be pretty comfortable with less expensive dive underwear or even with some sort of non-SCUBA underlayer...?
Or am I totally wrong, and unless I spend a few hundred dollars on this, I might as well be diving wet..?
Thanks!
Mike