A question for you dry divers!

grouchyturtle · Oct 20, 2003

Ok here's one for you drysuit divers.
How many of you dive dry, because the water's too cold for even a 2 piece 7mm and how many of you dive dry, because it's too damn cold on the surface this time of year?

I'm ok at depth in my 7mm, but I've been freezing my you know what off on the surface the past few weeks. If I dropped my wetsuit after that second dive on Saturday, you may have mistaken me for a woman!

ABQdiver · Oct 20, 2003

The natural springs we dive here locally is a constant 62°. However the colder temps during the SI makes a drysuit SOOOO much more comfortable.

I've done both now and prefer dry over wet and cold.

String · Oct 20, 2003

I need to answer "both" to the poll but that isnt an option.

ScubaScott · Oct 20, 2003

I'm with String on this one.....

SS

baenglish73 · Oct 20, 2003

Reminds me of a George Costanza

Well I just got back from swimming in the pool. And the water was cold...

James connell · Oct 20, 2003

i dive dry because i like to be able to just pull the suit on and dive, get out pull the suit off, towel my hair and go.

radagalf · Oct 20, 2003

I'ld have to say both too... in the summer I could pull 2 dives off no problem in a wetsuit. Fall I could do one dive comfortably in a wetsuit, but that would be it. Surface interval would kill me.

Winter time, couldn't do any dives. Too cold in water and too cold out of water. Especially as I go to 100 - 130 feet quite regularly.

Plus, I agree that getting out nice and dry, throwing my gear in my car and driving away is a HUGE bonus..

Diver Lori · Oct 20, 2003

Both for me too. The only time you'll find me in a wetsuit anymore is in the balmy tropics. I'm a year-round drysuit wearer in quarries, lakes etc.

Once you go dry, you'll never go back to wet.

MikeFerrara · Oct 20, 2003

I dive dry because I get cold in the shower. And...
because wet suits suck. First they only keep you warm at the surface since they compress and lose the ability insulate at depth and around here the water gets warm at the surface but is always cold at depth. Also because of suit compression while you may be weighted and balanced corre tly at the surface you'll be over weighted at depth. All that combined with the fact that you lose more heat and are wet when you get out (leaving you at the mercy of the wind) A heavy wet suit just isn't a good tool for anything.

On the other hand, the dry suit has the same insulating and buoyancy characteristics at depth as it does at the surface.

If I need more than a skin or a 3 mil shorty it'll be a dry suit.

Ender · Oct 21, 2003

MikeFerrara once bubbled...
I dive dry because I get cold in the shower. And...
because wet suits suck.

Amen to that. I dive drysuit even in tropic (South Pacific Islands) - and while I might get ridiculed on the first dive, by the end of the week there's a number of people who develop "I hate this guy in drysuit - he's dry and warm!" attitude

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Vlad

A question for you dry divers!

Why do you dive dry?

I dive in water that's too cold to dive wet

sick of freezing in between dives this time of year

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