Don't help?

[Kayakingphotos]

Seriously, it is a bit awkward to explain. Commercial divers usually dress on a rectangular wooden bench with no back and positioned so the tender can walk all around them. The procedure also works standing or with the diver sitting a recreational dive boat bench and having them rotate about 45°.

• Option 1 (most comfortable for most divers): Tender stands a little behind the diver on the side they are putting the glove on, and facing the same direction
  • Diver bends their elbow and presses their upper arm/elbow against the tender's thigh, or gut if the diver is standing
  • Diver's forearm is parallel to the deck with the thumb pointing up

This is the quickest photo that I could find on my website from this spring. Just got home from my fall vacation where we dove commercial and historic gear. We get lots of practice putting on gloves.

 

[scubarushu]

Interesting post to say the least.
Unfortunately I always need help pulling my wetsuit zipper up. Yes, I have a drysuit with front zipper. But when in a wetsuit, I don't seem to have mastered pulling the zipper up without it getting caught 1/2 way up. Perhaps someone can help my poor soul.

If your trouble has anything to do with the zipper flap getting caught in the zipper, I flex my shoulders back to give it a bit of room to fall in behind the zipper when I'm zipping up. And I pull the zipper pull as much straight up and a little out behind me as I can manage. Seems to work almost as well as asking some nice person nearby for help.

 

[Donnah]

Try over 70, white haired, and female.