When do you wear your drysuit?

When do you wear your drysuit?

  • I prefer wearing my drysuit and use it all year unless it is uncomfortably hot.

    Votes: 49 53.3%
  • I prefer wearing my wetsuit and use my drysuit only when the conditions are too cold.

    Votes: 20 21.7%
  • I have no preference between wetsuit and drysuit and wear whatever is appropriate.

    Votes: 23 25.0%

  • Total voters
    92

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For formal events only. Black tie and such...
 
Perhaps when I buy one. For me temperatures are not that cold here in SoCal year-round (worst I ever remember was 48 degrees with nothing below 50 the past two years... and that was at "extreme" depth in the summer).

Of course people have different thermal tolerances. Since I have no well-developed nervous system, cold rarely bothers me. For others they can be cold in 80 degree water.

I have noticed a lot more divers seem to be wearing drysuits here year-round. Hard for me to understand that since last summer was like an El Nino year (as high as 83 F surface reported, 79 F repeatedly), but if it makes them comfortable who am I to question it.
 
Have been dry for only four months. I do most of my diving in CA and MA (colder water), and plan to wear my dry suit for most all dives year-round. The 7mm is a pain. Only times I plan to wear the 7mm is when I'm hunting or when diving from a few of the really rocky sites, where the possibility of damaging the dry suit is much higher.
 
I figured "when diving" was too smartassed...
Anytime it gets too cold for my 3mm. I replaced my 7mm with a dry. Usualy less than 50F water in AK so it's pretty much a must. I did get to 39 in a 7mm once, and only once!
I know people here in Hawaii that dive dry. Dont know why but a few do.
 
I've only been wearing my dry suit for a few months. I wore it Nov. & Dec. & also for a New Years Day dive. I haven't dove since because the air temps have been too cold for my liking. I'm hoping I can get back to it in March. during the warmer months I will wear a wet suit for shallow quarry diving & the dry suit for deeper water. The quarry water temps are 42 degrees year round below 50'. I plan to switch back & forth as needed.
 
Well we did a four hour dive in the Devil's cave system on Megaladon CCR's two days ago in 66 degree f water. That kinda dictates a dry suit. I prefer wetsuits, but when you do long dives.............
 
Always in a DS and dry gloves.

The only time I'm not are when I'm lobstering. Other than that, I dive them every month of the year here in SoCal. As a photographer, I essentually don't move much when I dive. In fact, I often sit very still. And I dive big tanks or doubles, so I'm down for a long time.

And because I'm repositioning the strobes throughout a dive, I get wrist seal leaks -hence the dry gloves.

I just adjust the DS undies (or lack thereof) for the conditions. I can dive dry in 67 degree water or in 47 degree water and be perfectly comfy.

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Ken
 

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