boots in wetsuit or wetsuit in boots?

diver_doug · Dec 3, 2009

Kind of a stupid question, but are boots supposed to go on the outside of the wetsuit, or with the wetsuit on the outside of the boot? Inside the boot makes more intuitive sense to me (after all, you don't try to tuck the base of your gloves into the wetsuit's sleeves), but I've had a couple of divers tell me it should be the other way around. Just curious if there's a "standard" way?

sabbath999 · Dec 3, 2009

Depends if you plan on peeing in your wetsuit. If so, I would suggest boots inside wetsuit.

Actually, this is how I do mine since one of my boot zippers tends to pop open, and the wetsuit keeps it shut.

highdesert · Dec 3, 2009

If you wear the boots outside, when you exit the water you will have a neoprene water balloon on each foot. Not to mention the peeing part .... :shakehead:

. So yeah, boots inside of wetsuit.

MauiScubaSteve · Dec 3, 2009

Also your boots don't turn into drag chutes.

Belmont · Dec 3, 2009

1,2,3.

You got all the answers in the first three.

You see how efficient we are here on Scubaboard.

FishOutUvH2O · Dec 3, 2009

If you would normally tuck your pant legs into your socks, then go ahead and tuck your wetsuit into your booties. . . There's no reason to stop looking like a dork just because you're diving!

Thalassamania · Dec 3, 2009

Boots under wetsuit, except in the old days in the Arctic and Antarctic when we wore booties that came up to just below our knees.

Web Monkey · Dec 4, 2009

diver_doug:
Kind of a stupid question, but are boots supposed to go on the outside of the wetsuit, or with the wetsuit on the outside of the boot? Inside the boot makes more intuitive sense to me (after all, you don't try to tuck the base of your gloves into the wetsuit's sleeves), but I've had a couple of divers tell me it should be the other way around. Just curious if there's a "standard" way?

Definitely inside. The pee keeps my toes warm.

Terry

SNorman · Dec 4, 2009

I don't know why, but when I first read this I was thinking "dry suit"... no idea why. I was so confused. After reading the first reply I'm like "***???" then I figured it out. DUH. I was imagining some idiot wearing boots inside a dry suit.

Prostar · Dec 4, 2009

highdesert:
If you wear the boots outside, when you exit the water you will have a neoprene water balloon on each foot. Not to mention the peeing part .... . So yeah, boots inside of wetsuit.

Puts a whole new spin on water retention.

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